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275 - Marcus Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman emperor by the Senate.

303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.

1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.

1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.

1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the Pacific Ocean.

1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.

1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.

1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California.

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 of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.

1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.

1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.

1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops.

1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.

1970 - The Partridge Family debuts on ABC-TV and would run for four years.

1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.

1976 - The rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullen's home.

1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.

1988 - Monty Python member Michael Palin sets out from London's Reform Club to start his BBC documentary ''Around the World in 80 Days''.

1988 - Oh My Goddess! (ああっ女神さまっ, Aa! Megami-sama!) is first published.

1991 - Mattan Biton was born (number 1 Montreal Canadiens fan)

1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.

2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.

2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan.

2005 - Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion.

2006 - The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction due to Hurricane Katrina as the New Orleans Saints defeat division rivals Atlanta Falcons 23-3 in front a cheerful home crowd.

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1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)

1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)

1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)

1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)

1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)

1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)

1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)

1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)

1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)

1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)

1766 - Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)

1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)

1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)

1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)

1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)

1798 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)

1839 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)

1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)

1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1945)

1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)

1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)

1896 - Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)

1897 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)

1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)

1903 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)

1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)

1916 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball player and announcer

1917 - Johnny Sain, baseball player

1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)

1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)

1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)

1926 - Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)

1927 - Sir Colin Davis, English conductor

1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)

1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster

1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)

1932 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)

1932 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain

1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster

1936 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (d. 1996)

1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland

1943 - Robert Gates, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1944 - Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

1944 - Doris Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from California

1945 - Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player

1946 - Felicity Kendal, British actress

1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, American model

1951 - Mark Hamill, American actor

1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (d. 2004)

1952 - Anson Williams, American actor and director

1955 - Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)

1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer

1958 - Michael Madsen, American actor

1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer

1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host

1961 - Heather Locklear, American actress and model

1962 - Aida Turturro, American actress

1964 - Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actresses (seiyū)

1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman (Saputo) and sports executive (Montreal Impact)

1965 - Scottie Pippen, American basketball player

1968 - Will Smith, American actor and rapper

1969 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)

1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

1969 - Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel

1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)

1971 - John Lynch, American football player

1971 - Hal Sparks, American actor

1973 - Bridgette Wilson, American actress

1973 - Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer

1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter

1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player

1976 - Chauncey Billups, American basketball player

1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer

1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model

1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer

1980 - T.I., rapper

1981 - Jason Bergmann, baseball pitcher

1991 - Emmy Clarke, American actress

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1066 - Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:

Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria

Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)

1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)

1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)

1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)

1506 - King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)

1534 - Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)

1536 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)

1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)

1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian (b. 1548)

1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (b. 1617)

1626 - Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)

1630 - Ambrosio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Spanish general (b. 1569)

1665 - Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)

1703 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)

1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)

1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)

1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)

1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)

1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)

1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)

1849 - Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)

1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)

1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)

1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)

1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)

1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)

1926 - Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)

1929 - Miller Huggins, baseball player and manager (b. 1879)

1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)

1946 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)

1960 - Emily Post , American author & etiquette expert (b. 1873)

1961 - Frank Fay American actor first husband of Barbara Stanwyck (b. 1897)

1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)

1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (b. 1915)

1980 - John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)

1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)

1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)

1983 - King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)

1984 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)

1986 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)

1987 - Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)

1987 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)

1991 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal

1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)

1995 - Bessie Delany, African-American physician and author (b. 1891)

1996 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)

1997 - Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)

1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)

2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)

2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician

2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)

2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)

2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)

2005 - George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)

2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist, founder of Head Start program (b. 1917)

2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)

2005 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)

2006 - Jeff Cooper renowned firearms expert (b. 1920)

2006 - John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (b. 1957)

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R.C. Saints - Virgin of Fuencisla; Saint Finbarr.

Also see September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

Mozambique - Armed Forces Day.

French Republican Calendar - Colchique (Crocus) Day, fourth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.