Today is Wednesday, September twenty fifth, the 269th day of the 12 months 2024. There are 97 days left within the 12 months.
Today in history:
On September 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a girl in his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby was released in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)
Also on this date:
In 1513, the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean.
In 1956, the primary transatlantic telephone cable was officially inaugurated with a ceremonial three-way call between New York, Ottawa and London.
In 1957, nine black students who were forced to depart Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's one hundred and first Airborne Division and the National Guard.
In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a non-public plane collided over San Diego.
In 2005, within the presence of disarmament observers, the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its arsenal, officially ending its 36-year armed struggle for a united Irish state.
In 2012, President Barack Obama, in a speech to the UN General Assembly, promised American support to Syrians searching for to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, calling him “a dictator who is massacring his own people.”
In 2013, skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America's Cup with one among the best comebacks in sporting history, overtaking Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand within the all-important Race 19 on San Francisco Bay.
Today's birthdays:
- Hubie Brown, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 91.
- Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is 81.
- Actor and producer Michael Douglas is 80.
- Model Cheryl Tiegs is 77.
- Actress Mimi Kennedy is 76.
- Film director Pedro Almodovar is 75.
- Actor and director Anson Williams is 75.
- Actor Mark Hamill is 73.
- Bob McAdoo, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 73.
- Actor Michael Madsen is 66.
- Actress Heather Locklear is 63.
- The actress Aida Turturro is 62.
- Actor Tate Donovan is 61.
- Actress Maria Doyle Kennedy is 60.
- Scottie Pippen, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 59.
- Actor Will Smith is 56.
- Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is 55.
- John Lynch, a member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 53.
- Chauncey Billups, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 48.
- Actress Clea DuVall is 47.
- Rapper TI is 44.
- The actor and rapper Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) is 41.
- Actor Zach Woods is 40.
- Actor Jordan Gavaris is 35.
- Actress Leah Jeffries is 15.
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