09-24-2010, 07:58 PM
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September 25th
1066 ~ Battle of Stamford Bridge, which marked the end of the Viking era.
1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer.
1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established.
1897 ~ Birthday of William Faulkner, American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist.
1950 ~ UN forces recaptured Seoul, the South Korean capital.
1957 ~ U.S. Army paratroopers ended the Little Rock school crisis.
1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office.
1983 ~ Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted World War III by refusing to accept - despite the (erroneous) alert given by the Soviet early warning system - that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR.
2002 ~ The Vitim event, a possible NEO impact in Siberia, Russia.
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