September 25: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
2. 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
3. 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
4. 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port ofBilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
5. 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
6. 1956 - TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated
7. 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
8. 1972 - In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
9. 1992 - NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
10. 2008 - China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
11. Famous Biirthdays: William Faulkner (American writer, Nobel laureate), Barbara Walters (American broadcaster), Shel Silverstein (American humorist, singer-songwriter and author), Robert Gates (American Secretary of Defense), Will Smith (American actor and rapper)

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