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Events 275 - M. Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. 1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of the Viking era. 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached 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 published in the Americas, published for the first and only time. It was considered offensive and its publisher, Benjamin Harris, was ordered not to publish any more. 1789 - The Bill of Rights passes the United States Congress 1846 - American forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey. 1890 - Yosemite National Park established in California. 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas is integrated through the use of United States Army troops 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California resulting in the death of 144. 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. 1998 - A Pauknair BAE146 crashes into hillside in Morocco killing 38 2003 - Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan. Births 1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer († 1764) 1866 - Thomas Morgan, geneticist († 1945) 1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, automobile pioneer 1897 - William Faulkner, novelist († 1962) 1903 - Mark Rothko, painter († 1970) 1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer († 1975) 1918 - Phil Rizzuto, baseball announcer 1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, actor († 1994) 1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first president of Nauru († 1992) 1926 - Aldo Ray, actor († 1991) 1930 - Shel Silverstein, humorist, author († 1999) 1931 - Barbara Walters, broadcaster 1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist, composer († 1982) 1936 - Juliet Prowse, actress, dancer († 1996) 1938 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland 1944 - Michael Douglas, actor, producer 1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model 1951 - Pedro Almodóvar, film director, writer, producer, actor 1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor 1952 - Mark Hamill, actor 1958 - Michael Madsen, actor 1961 - Heather Locklear, actress, model 1965 - Scottie Pippen, basketball star 1968 - Will Smith, actor, rapper 1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress 1970 - Dean Ween, musician ("Ween") 1971 - Hal Sparks, actor Deaths 1066 - Harald III of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge 1849 - Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer 1867 - Oliver Loving, Texas pioneer, rancher 1970 - Erich Maria Remarque, author 1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer 1980 - John Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin) 1980 - Lewis Milestone, film director 1983 - King Leopold III of Belgium 1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor 1987 - Mary Astor, actress 1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor 1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, science fiction author 2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (* 1913) 2001 - Lani O'Grady, actress 2003 - Franco Modigliani, economist 2003 - Edward Said, professor at the New York Columbia University, proponent of Palestinian rights Holidays September 24 · September 26 · August 25 · October 25 · more historical anniversaries
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