September 25 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 25

• 1897William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1968Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper
• 1881Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic
• 1906Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer
• 1969Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
• 1944Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• 1949Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1644Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker
• 1866Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1952Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist

What happened on September 25

• 1790Peking opera was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday.
• 1804The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
• 1890Sequoia National Park was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the southern Sierra Nevada in California.
• 1906Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.
• 1912Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• 1962The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• 1969The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
• 1974Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
• 1977About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.
• 1981Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1981Belize joins the United Nations.
• 1992NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

Also observed on September 25

• Armed Forces Day or Revolution Day (Mozambique)
• Bangladeshi Immigration Day (United States)