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On this day...
1492 Crewman on the Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America
1513 Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
1639 1st printing press in America
1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif)
1890 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw Doubleheader shutout
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1919 Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech
1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1949 Louis Suggs wins US Woman's Golf championship
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Phila Phillies, 5-0
1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses
1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US
1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
1973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium
1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
1978 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court
1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 "Good & Evil" premiers on ABC TV
1991 The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
Birthdates on September 25:
1644 Olaus R?mer Denmark, 1st to accurately measure speed of light
1657 Imre Th?k?ly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed & built 1st automobile
1766 Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1877 Plutarco El?as Calles Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1887 May Sutton Bundy US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1897 William Faulkner Mississippi, author (Sound & the Fury-Nobel 1949)
19-- Brett Hadley actor (Young & Restless)
19-- Josh Taylor Princeton Ill, actor (Frank-Riker, Michael-Valerie)
19-- Michael Madsen Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
19-- Rob Mingrino Ct, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
19-- Todd Davis NYC, actor (General Hospital)
19-- Tommy Norden NYC, actor (Flipper)
1903 Mark Rothko US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 Red Smith Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich St Petersburg Russia, composer (9th-1945)
1907 Robert Bresson France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1918 Phil Rizzuto Bkln NY, sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 Sergey Bondarchuk Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1925 Silvana Pampanini Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1926 Aldo Ray actor (God's Little Acre, Naked & the Dead, Green Beret)
1926 John Ericson Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 Sergei Filatov USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1927 Carl Braun basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 Sir Colin Rex Davis Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1931 Barbara Walters Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1932 Glenn Herbert Gould Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano)
1934 John S Bull Memphis Tennessee, astronaut
1936 Juliet Prowse Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1943 John Locke LA, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1943 Robert Walden NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1944 Eugenia Zukerman Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 Michael Douglas NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1945 Cathy Burns actress (Last Summer)
1949 Anson Williams LA Calif, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy Rochester NY, actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof)
1951 Bob McAdoo NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 Mark Hamill Oakland Calif, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve actor (Superman)
1955 Steve Severin rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
196- Shell Danielson actress (Laken Lockridge-Santa Barbara)
1961 Heather Locklear LA Calif, actress (Stacy-T.J. Hooker)
1965 Fresh Prince [Will Smith], rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand)
1967 Lezlie Lund Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1968 Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands
1970 Kerri Kendall San Diego Ca, playmate (Sep, 1990)
If Today is Your Birthday
Forecast for 2007-2008
Born September 25
You are filled with energy, courage, and drive this year--sometimes to the point of excess. The drive to achieve is strong, making this a super year for courageously going after what you want in life. Physical activity and ambitious projects are a must in order to channel excess energy into healthy endeavors. Avoid overstrain. The ability to express yourself more efficiently and meaningfully is with you. Getting your finances and your love life in order plays a big role. Ups and downs and a few disappointments in these areas of life are likely, but dramatic improvements are the end result.