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September 25 in history

203 sourced entries recorded on September 25, from 539 BCE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 539 BCESeptember 25–28? – Battle of Opis: Troops of the Persian Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great decisively defeat those of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.source
  • 608Pope Boniface IV succeeds Boniface III, as the 67th pope of Rome.source
  • 762The Alid Revolt begins: Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya raises the banner against the Abbasids at Medina, followed by his brother Ibrahim ibn Abdallah at Basra in early 763. Muhammad's rebellion is suppressed, and he is killed by Abbasid troops under Isa ibn Musa.source
  • 844November 11 or 17 – Viking raid on Seville (844): Vikings arrive in Seville by the Guadalquivir, taking the city on October 1 or 3 and pillaging it; but are expelled by forces of the Emirate of Córdoba.source
  • 1047September 25–28 – Rebel general Leo Tornikios (a nephew of Emperor Constantine IX) proclaims himself emperor at Adrianople, and besieges Constantinople. Byzantine troops personally led by Constantine repel him, and re-occupy the walls. Tornikios is forced to withdraw, while his followers start to abandon him. Finally, he is captured at a church in Boulgarophygon (modern Turkey), and is publicly blinded.source
  • 1066Battle of Stamford Bridge: Harold II defeats the forces of Harald Hardrada and his own brother Tostig Godwinson.source
  • 1171Saladin leads an Egyptian army to take part in a joint attack on the Crusader castles Kerak and Montréal, south of the Dead Sea. In November, Saladin withdraws his forces to Cairo to suppress a coup.source
  • 1187September 20–October 2 – Siege of Jerusalem: Egyptian army under Saladin captures Jerusalem, after the Crusaders led by Balian of Ibelin surrender the 'Holy City'. The take-over of the city is relatively peaceful; Saladin agrees to let the Muslims and Christians leave the city, taking with them their goods. Balian joins his wife Maria Komnene and family, in the County of Tripoli.source
  • 1237Treaty of York: King Henry III signs an agreement with Alexander II of Scotland at York. Alexander subjects to Henry's sovereignty and renounces the Scottish claims to Northumberland, Westmorland and Cumberland. This establishes the Anglo-Scottish border in a form with the future status of several feudal properties and marks the end of Scotland's attempts to extend its frontier southward.source
  • 1340Hundred Years' War: The temporary Truce of Espléchin is signed between England and France.source
  • 1352Emperor Go-Kōgon becomes 4th Emperor of the Northern Court of Japan.source
  • 1373At Constantinople, Manuel II Palaiologos is proclaimed as co-Emperor of Byzantium by his father, the Emperor John V Palaiologos.source
  • 1381King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia grants Count Bernhard of Wurttemberg permission to rebuild fortresses that had been destroyed during the war with the Swabian League, despite an order by the Holy Roman Emperor Karl that forbids rearmament within the Empire.source
  • 1396Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottomans defeat a joint crusade by Hungary, France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Wallachia, led by King Sigismund of Hungary. This is the last large-scale crusade of the Middle Ages.source
  • 1439King Henry VI of England summons the English Parliament, directing all members to assemble at Westminster on November 12.source
  • 1513Vasco Núñez de Balboa first sees what will become known as the Pacific Ocean from the Isthimus of Darién. This moment is later referenced in a poem by John Keats called "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" with the line "silent upon a peak in Darién" although he mistakenly references Hernán Cortés as the one who saw the Pacific from Darién.source
  • 1554The monarch orders the burghers of the capital to finance the building of Naval ships.source
  • 1555The Peace of Augsburg is signed between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League, establishing the principle Cuius regio, eius religio, that is, rulers within the Empire can choose the religion of their realm.source
  • 1559At the age of 12, Petru cel Tânăr (Peter the Younger) is named as the new Prince of Wallachia at the capital, Târgoviște (now in Romania) after the death of his father, Mircea the Shepherd. In response, members of Wallachian nobility (boyars) opposed to Mircea's rule launch the first of three attempts to take the throne, fighting battles at Românești, Șerpătești and Boiani.source
  • 1570September 25 (26th day of 8th month of Genki 1) – The 10-year-long Ishiyama Hongan-ji War begins in Japan as Oda Nobunaga stages simultaneous attacks on two fortresses (Ishiyama Hongan-ji and Nagashima) of the Ikkō-ikki faction near Osaka.source
  • 1572The coronation of Rudolf as King of Hungary takes place at St. Martin's Cathedral in Pozsony (now Bratislava, Slovakia).source
  • 1575At St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Rudolf of Habsburg, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, is crowned King of Bohemia by the Archbishop Antonín Brus of Mohelnice.source
  • 1597Amiens is retaken from the Spanish by Anglo-French forces, led by Henry IV of France, after a four-month siege.source
  • 1597The city of Amiens is liberated after a three months of siege by king Henry IV and his army.source
  • 1598Battle of Stångebro at Linköping in Sweden: The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.source
  • 1598The Battle of Stångebro results in victory for the Swedish rebels under Duke Charles and the end of the union.source
  • 1604Polish victory in the Battle of Weissenstein.source
  • 1629Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629): Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth sign the Truce of Altmark, ending the war in highly favourable terms for Sweden.source
  • 1632Yakutsk, Russia is founded by Pyotr Beketov.source
  • 1633King Louis XIII enters into Nancy, marking the occupation of the Duchy of Lorraine by France.source
  • 1633Entry of the king into Nancy marking the occupation of the Duchy of Lorraine by France.source
  • 1643the Solemn League and Covenant is signed between the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.source
  • 1655September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowieckisource
  • 1660Samuel Pepys has his first cup of tea (an event recorded in his diary).source
  • 1660one of the earliest references to tea in England appears in Samuel Pepys's diary.source
  • 1690The only issue of Publick Occurrences is published in Boston, Massachusetts, before being suppressed by the colonial authorities.source
  • 1697Banishment Act, one of the penal laws, banishes all Roman Catholic ordinaries, including bishops, and regular clergy (members of religious institutions) from Ireland.source
  • 1702General John Churchill forces the surrender of Venlo on the Meuse River.source
  • 1762September 24–October 6 – Battle of Manila: Troops of the British East India Company take Manila from the Spanish, leading to the British occupation of Manila and its being made an open port.source
  • 1768September 22–29 – The Massachusetts Convention of Towns, assembling in Boston, resolves on a written objection to the impending arrival of British troops rather than more militant action but causes panic in London.source
  • 1775American Revolution: Siege of Fort St. Jean – Battle of Longue-Pointe: Thirteen Colonies revolutionary forces under Maj. Ethan Allen attack Montreal in Quebec, commanded by British General Guy Carleton. Allen's forces are defeated, and Allen himself is captured and held on British ships until he is released.source
  • 1775Attempting to take Montreal, Ethan Allen and many of his 150 followers are captured, at Longue Pointe, and are sent to England.source
  • 1780Benedict Arnold flees to British-held New York.source
  • 1786The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses killing more than a hundred people. The event is a major setback for quicksilver production in the Spanish Empire.source
  • 1789The United States Congress proposes a set of 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, for ratification by the states. Ratification for 10 of these proposals is completed on December 5, 1791, creating the United States Bill of Rights.source
  • 1790The Peking Opera is born, when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing, in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday.source
  • 1791Mission Santa Cruz is founded by Basque Franciscan Father Fermín Lasuén, becoming the 12th mission in the California mission chain.source
  • 1793Sydney's first church opens.source
  • 1806Prussia issues an ultimatum to Paris, threatening war if France does not halt marching its troops through Prussian territory to reach Austria; the message does not reach Napoleon Bonaparte until October 7, and he responds by attacking Prussia.source
  • 1818Dr James Blundell carries out the first blood transfusion using human blood, in London.source
  • 1825General Hendrik Merkus de Kock lifts the siege of Jogjakarta, the first major action of the Java War.source
  • 1827Madawaska is annexed by the United States, and John Baker is arrested.source
  • 1844The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator prints its final issue. 369 issues were produced.source
  • 1844September 25–27 – The first ever international cricket match is played in New York City, United States v Canadian Provinces.source
  • 1845The Phi Alpha Literary Society is founded, in Jacksonville, Illinois.source
  • 1848The Hungarian king and Habsburg emperor Ferdinand V refuses to recognise the Hungarian government, led by Lajos Batthyány. The Batthyány government resigns and the National Defence Committee is formed, which is a temporary crisis government, totally independent from Vienna, under the leadership of Lajos Kossuth.source
  • 1850King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brusselssource
  • 1868September 19–27 - Glorious Revolution (Spain)source
  • 1871West Chester University (Pennsylvania) is charted as West Chester Normal Schoolsource
  • 1873Classes begin at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.source
  • 1876The Hans Christian Ørsted Monument in Ørstedsparken in Copenhagen is inaugurated.source
  • 1879A fire in Deadwood, South Dakota, leaves 2,000 people homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3 million.source
  • 1879Deadwood, South Dakota fire: 2000 people are left homeless and 300 buildings destroyed; total loss of property is estimated at $3 million.source
  • 1881in Meckesheim physician Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer performs the first modern Caesarean section, the transverse incision technique to minimise bleeding.source
  • 1890President Wilford Woodruff of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues the 1890 Manifesto ending the official practice of polygamy.source
  • 1895September 24–October 3 – the Automobile Club de France sponsors the longest race to date, a 1,710 km event, from Bordeaux to Agen and back. Because it is held in ten stages, it can be considered the first rally. The first three places are taken by two Panhards and a three-wheeler De Dion-Bouton.source
  • 1907Cape Midland – Mosselbaai to George, 32 mi 49 ch.source
  • 1911French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, France, killing around 300 onboard and in the surrounding area.source
  • 1915October 14 – WWI: Battle of Loos – British forces take the French town of Loos, but with substantial casualties, and are unable to press their advantage. This is the first time the British use poison gas in World War I, and also their first large-scale use of 'New' (or Kitchener's Army) units.source
  • 1926William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada, after winning the Canadian federal election.source
  • 1926Henry Ford announces the 8-hour, 5-day work week.source
  • 1926The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.source
  • 1927A treaty signed by the League of Nations Slavery Commission abolishes all types of slavery.source
  • 1928Paul and Joseph Galvin incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation (later known as Motorola and Freescale).source
  • 1932The result of the Greek legislative election is an ambivalent one for the two leading parties, the Liberal Party of Eleftherios Venizelos and the People's Party. The People's Party receives a plurality of votes in the Lower House elections, but wins fewer seats than the Liberal Party; the Liberals also win the most seats in the Senate.source
  • 1937Second Sino-Japanese War - Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese Eighth Route Army defeats the Japanese.source
  • 1938British Royal Navy is ordered to sea.source
  • 1938Paul Olaf Bodding, missionary, linguist and folklorist (born 1865)source
  • 1940September 22–26 – Japanese invasion of French Indochinasource
  • 1940Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany: German Reichskommissar Josef Terboven appoints a provisional council of state from the pro-Nazi Nasjonal Samling party, under Vidkun Quisling, as a puppet government for Norway.source
  • 1943September 22–October 2 – WWII: Landing at Scarlet Beach on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea by Allied forces, the first time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.source
  • 1949U.S. Christian evangelist Billy Graham starts his Los Angeles Crusade, his first great evangelistic campaign. It runs for eight weeks during which Graham speaks to 350,000 people and the event is subsequently described as the greatest revival since the time of Billy Sunday. After this, Graham becomes a national figure in the United States.source
  • 1952Legislative Councillor for Seletar Constituency Vilasini Menon resigned due to being charged with a criminal breach of trust in India along with her husband.source
  • 1953The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany.source
  • 1954Footscray Football Club wins their first Australian Football League Grand Final.source
  • 1955September 21–30 – Hurricane Janet, one of the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, sweeps the Lesser Antilles and Mexico, causing more than 1,020 deaths.source
  • 1956The submarine transatlantic telephone cable opens.source
  • 1956Operation Lulav (מבצע לולב): Following the murder of the participants in an archaeological conference held in Ramat Rachel and the murder of two farmers from Moshav Aminadav and Kibbutz Maoz Haim, IDF forces raid the police fort at Husan, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank (then under the control of Jordan). Thirty-seven Legionnaires and National Guardsmen were killed as well as two civilians. Nine IDF members were also killed.source
  • 1957Operation Deep Water, a big NATO exercise around Çanakkale.source
  • 1959September 15–28 – USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.source
  • 1963In the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch is deposed by a coup d'état led by the military with civilian support.source
  • 1964The Mozambican War of Independence is launched by FRELIMO.source
  • 1966Two typhoons Helen and Ida landed in Japan on same days, according to Japanese government official confirmed report, total 317 persons were human fatalities with 824 persons were hurt.source
  • 1969September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.source
  • 1969The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is founded.source
  • 19721972 Norwegian EC referendum: Norway rejects membership of the European Economic Community.source
  • 1975Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (born 1915), Austrian-born Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist.source
  • 1981Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.source
  • 1991September 21 – 30 – Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials refuse to let them leave with the documents, prompting a standoff that continues until the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions on Iraq.source
  • 1993The Nipah Dam incident: Indonesian security forces shoot and kill four protesters opposing the construction of a dam.source
  • 1994Portuguese Grand Prixsource
  • 1998Benoit Lecomte finishes his 72-day swim across the Atlantic Ocean, but uncertainty over the exact route and distance covered prevent him from being recognized as the first person to swim across the Atlantic.source
  • 1998September 25–28 – Major creditors of Long-Term Capital Management, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, after days of tough bargaining and some informal mediation by Federal Reserve officials, agree on terms of a re-capitalization to avoid a wider collapse in financial markets.source
  • 2001Pope John Paul II visits Armenia to participate on the celebrations of 1,700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as a national religion in Armenia.source
  • 2002September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.source
  • 2002September 21–October 4 – Hurricane Lili crosses Cuba and several other Caribbean islands before making landfall in Louisiana.source
  • 2003Two parties in the Second Sudanese Civil War, the National Islamic Front and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, reach a peace agreement.source
  • 2005September 17-25 - Croatia hosted the 2005 Women's European Volleyball Championship in Pula and Zagreb.source
  • 2007Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park in New Zealand, erupts.source
  • 2008MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship was seized by Somali pirates off the Somalian coast. The ship was carrying 33 Russian T-72 tanks destined to Kenya.source
  • 2011A suicide bombing struck a cathedral in Solo. At least 28 people were injured in the attack. The perpetrator was the sole fatality.source
  • 2014A privately owned Socata TBM-900 (flight number N900KN) from the US flies without a conscious pilot for a thousand miles after a suspected cabin depressurization (see also) and crashes 14 miles off the coast of northeastern Jamaica.source
  • 2017The Kurdistan Region votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of Iraq; by October 15, the crisis escalates into a short-lived armed conflict over disputed territories.source
  • 2021Mali recruits Russia's PMC Wagner Group to fight Islamic terrorism in the country, according to a news outlet citing Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.source
  • 2021Internal ministry buildings were attacked and set on fire in Northern Kosovo.source
  • 2021Vanuatu launches a global campaign to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Vanuatu bases its decision on being incapable with its own decisions to address rising sea levels and other challenges linked to climate change and wants the ICJ to establish responsibilities for climate change under international law.source
  • 2022The 2022 Italian general election is held to elect all 400 seats of the Chamber of Deputies and 200 seats of the Senate of the Republic (reduced from 630 and 215 respectively according to the outcome of the 2020 constitutional referendum). Observers commented that the results shifted the geopolitics of the European Union, following far-right gains in France, Spain, and Sweden. It was also noted that the election outcome would mark Italy's most right-wing government since 1945.source
  • 2022Uzbekistan suspends the use of Russia's card payment system Mir. The move was supposedly warranted by the need "to carry out the necessary technical procedures" and was not related to sanctions.source
  • 2022September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.source
  • 2022September 22 – October 1 – The 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup is held in Sydney, Australia. In the final, the United States wins 83–61 against China.source

Births

  • 1198Ai Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1234)source
  • 1216Robert I, French nobleman (died 1250)source
  • 1305Al-Mahdi Ali, Yemeni imam and politician (died 1372)source
  • 1358Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (died 1408)source
  • 1403Louis III of Anjou (died 1434)source
  • 1450Ursula of Brandenburg, Duchess of Münsterberg-Oels and Countess of Glatz (died 1508)source
  • 1525Steven Borough, English explorer (died 1584)source
  • 1529Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (died 1583)source
  • 1582Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (died 1620)source
  • 1599Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (died 1667)source
  • 1620François Bernier, French physician and traveller (died 1688)source
  • 1636Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (died 1698)source
  • 1644Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (died 1710)source
  • 1644Ole Rømer, astronomer (died 1710)source
  • 1645Naitō Kiyokazu, Japanese daimyō who ruled the Takatō Domain (died 1714)source
  • 1683Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (died 1764)source
  • 1694Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1754)source
  • 1711Qianlong Emperor, sixth Emperor of the Qing dynasty in China (died 1799)source
  • 1738Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (died 1789)source
  • 1744King Frederick William II of Prussia (died 1797)source
  • 1764Fletcher Christian, English sailor and mutineer (died 1793)source
  • 1766Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Prime Minister of France (died 1822)source
  • 1788Björn Gunnlaugsson, mathematician and cartographer.source
  • 1793Felicia Hemans, British poet (died 1835)source
  • 1853Juan Francisco González (died 1933)source
  • 1862Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1952)source
  • 1877Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President of Mexico, 1924–1928; known as Jefe Maximo ("Maximum Boss") from 1928 to 1934 (died 1945)source
  • 1903Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (died 1970)source
  • 1903Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani journalist, theologian, and philosopher (died 1979)source
  • 1906José Figueres Ferrer, President 1948-1949, 1953-1958, 1970-1974 (died 1990)source
  • 1921Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1992)source
  • 1932Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (died 1982)source
  • 1944Michael Douglas, American actor and producersource
  • 1952Christopher Reeve, American actor, activist (Superman) (died 2004)source
  • 1968Will Smith, African-American actor and rappersource
  • 1979Michele Scarponi, Italian road bicycle racer (died 2017)source

Deaths

  • 303On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens (Modern day France).source
  • 744Yazid III, Muslim caliph (born 701)source
  • 969Burchard, bishop of Meissen (approximate date)source
  • 1018Berthold of Toul, German bishopsource
  • 1066Harald III (Harald Hardrada), king of Norway — killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridgesource
  • 1066Tostig Godwinson, earl of Northumbria — killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridgesource
  • 1086William VIII, duke of Aquitainesource
  • 1087Simon I, French nobleman (born 1025)source
  • 1088Godfrey, English bishop of Chichestersource
  • 1104Simon II, French noblemansource
  • 1254William III de Cantilupe, English noblemansource
  • 13031303 Hongdong earthquake: An earthquake destroys the cities of Taiyuan and Pingyang, some 200,000 people are killed.source
  • 1367Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese poet (born 1290)source
  • 1441Akamatsu Mitsusuke, Japanese samuraisource
  • 1442Robert de Morley, 6th Baron Morley, Lord of Morley Saint Botolph (born 1418)source
  • 1460Katharina of Hanau, German countess regent (born 1408)source
  • 1465Isabella of Bourbon, countess consort of Charolais, spouse of Charles the Bold (born c. 1434)source
  • 1469Margaret of Brittany, Breton duchess consort (born 1443)source
  • 1496Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (born 1447)source
  • 1506Philip I, the first Spanish Habsburg King of Castile, dies suddenly from typhoid.source
  • 1506King Philip the Handsome of Castile (born 1478)source
  • 1534Pope Clement VII (born 1478)source
  • 1544Valerius Cordus, German physician and scientist (born 1515)source
  • 1561Sehzade Bayezid, Ottoman Prince (born 1525)source
  • 1593Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, English nobleman, diplomat and politician (born 1531)source
  • 1602Caspar Peucer, German reformer (born 1525)source
  • 1615Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (born 1575)source
  • 1617Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (born 1571)source
  • 1617Francisco Suárez, Spanish Jesuit priest (born 1548)source
  • 1621Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (born 1561)source
  • 1626Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar (born 1555)source
  • 1630Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Italian general (born 1569)source
  • 1630Ambrogio Spinola (born 1569), military commandersource
  • 1665Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (born 1610)source
  • 1727Sarah Kemble Knight, colonial Massachusetts diarist (born 1666)source
  • 1777Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer (born 1728)source
  • 1779Ekaterina Chernysheva, courtier (born 1715)source
  • 1841John Chandler, American politician (born 1762)source
  • 1941September 16–30 – The Nikolaev massacre takes place in Mykolaiv (Soviet Union); 35,782 men, women and children, mostly Jews, are killed by Einsatzgruppe D and local collaborators.source
  • 1958Shahid Ali, Deputy Speaker EP Assembly, dies today. It is believed that the cause of death were the wounds suffered 2 days ago when disorder broke out inside the assembly.source
  • 1960I. I. Chundrigar, prime minister (born 1897)source
  • 1971Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice (born 1886)source
  • 1978PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.source
  • 1980Lewis Milestone, 84, Russian-born American film director (All Quiet on the Western Front, Ocean's 11, Two Arabian Knights).source
  • 2019September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.source
  • 2023An estimated 170 people are killed and over 300 are injured during an explosion at a gas station in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh.source
  • 2023Obie Wilchcombe, 64, politician.source