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Events

• 1775 (251 years ago) American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.
• 1786 (240 years ago) The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses, killing more than two hundred people. The event was a major setback for mercury production in the Spanish Empire.
• 1906 (120 years ago) Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.
• 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
• 1962 (64 years ago) The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
• 1981 (45 years ago) Belize joins the United Nations.
• 1992 (34 years ago) NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

Births

• 1644 (382 years ago) Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (died 1710)
• 1881 (145 years ago) Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (died 1936)
• 1897 (129 years ago) William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (died 1975)
• 1944 (82 years ago) Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
• 1949 (77 years ago) Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 (58 years ago) Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper
• 1969 (57 years ago) Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

Deaths

• 1066 (960 years ago) Harald Hardrada, Norwegian king (born 1015)
• 1534 (492 years ago) Pope Clement VII,
• 1958 (68 years ago) John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (born 1878)
• 1970 (56 years ago) Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (born 1898)
• 1983 (43 years ago) Leopold III of Belgium,
• 1986 (40 years ago) Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
• 1987 (39 years ago) Mary Astor, American actress (born 1906)
• 2011 (15 years ago) Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1940)

All 444 events, births and deaths of September 25