Updated September 24, 2012, 2:28 pm
On Sept. 25, 1957, with 300 United States Army troops standing guard, nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, days after unruly white crowds had forced them to withdraw.
On Sept. 25, 1897, William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the American South, was born. Following his death on July 6, 1962, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere. 1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean. 1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal. 1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.) 1890 Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy. 1897 Author William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Miss. 1919 President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles. 1956 The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable went into service. 1980 Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, 32, choked to death on his own vomit after a drinking binge. 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 2001 Saudi Arabia cut its relations with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban. 2011 Two American hikers held for more than two years in an Iranian prison, returned to the United States. Current Birthdays
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Actor Michael Douglas turns 68 years old today.
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TV personality Barbara Walters (“The View”) turns 83 years old today.
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1943 Robert Gates, Former secretary of defense, turns 69 1943 Robert Walden, Actor (“Lou Grant”), turns 69 1947 Cheryl Tiegs, Model, turns 65 1949 Mimi Kennedy, Actress, turns 63 1949 Anson Williams, Actor (“Happy Days”), turns 63 1951 Mark Hamill, Actor (“Star Wars”), turns 61 1951 Bob McAdoo, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 61 1951 Jimmy Sturr, Polka bandleader, turns 61 1958 Michael Madsen, Actor, turns 54 1961 Heather Locklear, Actress (“Melrose Place,” “Spin City”), turns 51 1962 Aida Turturro, Actress (“The Sopranos”), turns 50 1963 Tate Donovan, Actor (“Damages”), turns 49 1965 Scottie Pippen, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 47 1968 Will Smith, Actor, turns 44 1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress, turns 43 1973 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Actress, turns 39 1977 Clea DuVall, Actress, turns 35 1980 T.I., Rapper, turns 32
Historic Birthdays
William Faulkner 9/25/1897 – 7/6/1962 American Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer (1949).Go to obituary »
67 Francesco Borromini 9/25/1599 – 8/2/1667
Italian Baroque architect75 Claude Perrault 9/25/1613 – 10/9/1688
French physician, architect and engineer45 Melville Bissell 9/25/1843 – 3/15/1889
American inventor of the carpet sweeper66 Mark Rothko 9/25/1903 – 2/25/1970
American Abstract Expressionist painter66 Columbus Iselin 9/25/1904 – 1/5/1971
American oceanographer76 Red Smith 9/25/1905 – 1/15/1982
American syndicated sports columnist68 Dmitry Shostakovich 9/25/1906 – 8/9/1975
Russian composer81 John V. Dodge 9/25/1909 – 4/23/1991
American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica50 Glenn Gould 9/25/1932 – 10/4/1982
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