History for September 25 - On-This-Day.com
William Faulkner 1897, Barbara Walters 1929 - TV personality, Michael Douglas 1944 - Actor
Cheryl Tiegs 1947 - Model, Mark Hamill 1951 - Actor ("Star Wars"), Will Smith 1968 - Actor ("Independence Day," "Fresh Prince of Bell-Air")
1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the attack on Montreal.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - Must read!---A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/256019-stanislav-petrov-man-saved-world-nuclear-annihilation-died
1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.
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