September 25 in history — What Happened Today in History

The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.

World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.

An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

Leonardo 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.

The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

The 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.

Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.

The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.

The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses, killing more than two hundred people. The event was a major setback for mercury production in the Spanish Empire.

American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.

Unification of Nepal

Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

The House of Commons of England accepts the Solemn League and Covenant, which promises religious reforms in England and Ireland in exchange for support of Scottish troops against king Charles I in the First English Civil War.

Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer

Teddy Swims, American singer and songwriter

Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player

Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater

Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor

Cuco Martina, Curaçaoan footballer

Aldon Smith, American football player

Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player

Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player

Jamie O'Hara, English footballer

Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress

Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress

Matt Carle, American ice hockey player

Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1940)

Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945)

José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932)

Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (born 1915)

Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (born 1938)

Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930)

Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (born 1927)

John Bond, English footballer and manager (born 1932)

Eric Ives, English historian and academic (born 1931)

Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (born 1962)

Andy Williams, American singer (born 1927)

Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)

Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (born 1923)