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On This Day

September 25

1992
Magic Johnson quits Pres. Bush's National Commission on AIDS because of lack of support.

1992
Mars Observer: The $980 million spacecraft is launched. NASA lost contact with it three days before it was scheduled to arrive at Mars in August of 1993.

1987
Beauty and the Beast debuts on CBS.

1981
First woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court: Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in.

1965
The Beatles cartoon debuts on ABC.

1954
Elvis Presley: The King makes his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. An Opry official suggested he go back to driving trucks.

1951
Junction transistor is patented by Dr. Shockley of Bell Laboratories.

1890
Yosemite National Park established by Congress.

1789
Bill of Rights is submitted to the states for ratification.

1690
First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences Foreign and Domestick by Benjamin Harris of Boston is published. It was suppressed after one issue by the Royal Governor.

1513
First European to discover the Pacific Ocean: Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

1961
Heather Locklear, American actress. TV: Dynasty (Sammy Jo).

1952
Mark Hamill, American actor. Film: Star Wars (1977, Luke Skywalker). TV: General Hospital (Kent Murray).

1952     d. 2004
Christopher Reeve, American actor. Film: The Superman movies (1978-, the man of steel).

1949
Anson Williams, American actor. TV: Happy Days (Potsie).

1947
Cheryl Tiegs, American model.

1944
Michael Douglas, American Oscar-winning actor. Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, co-producer: it won five Oscars). He also did the voiceovers for the Nissan Infiniti commercials.

1943
Robert Walden, American actor. TV: Lou Grant (Joe Rossi).

1936
Juliet Prowse, dancer, actress.

1931
Barbara Walters, American Emmy-winning interviewer, commentator, the first woman anchor of a network TV news program (1976).

1897     d. 1962
William Faulkner, American Nobel-Pulitzer-winning author, wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929), Sanctuary (1931), A Fable (1954), and The Reivers (1962, Nobel).

1866     d. 1945
Thomas Hunt Morgan, American zoologist. He won a 1933 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the chromosome's role in heredity.

1988     b. 1937
Billy Carter, American personality, ex-Pres. Jimmy Carter's brother.

1987     b. 1906
Mary Astor (Lucille Vasconcellos Langhanke), Oscar-winning actress, The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Great Lie (1941, Oscar).

1984     b. 1897
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-born actor, noted for his films with Greer Garson. Film: The Gorilla (1931, title role).

1970     b. 1898
Erich Maria Remarque, German-born American author, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), the first non-American/English book to top the best seller list.

1960     b. 1873
Emily Post, American etiquette columnist and author.

1928     b. 1863
Richard Felton Outcault, American cartoonist, created the first recurring comic strip character (1896), the Yellow Kid of Hogan's Alley. He also created Buster Brown (1902).

1777     b. 1728
Johann Heinrich Lambert, German mathematician, physicist, astronomer, proved that the numbers e and pi are irrational, and for whom the unit of brightness "lambert" is named.

1534     b. 1478
Clement VII, Italian religious leader, 219th Pope (1523-34). He was the illegitimate son of Giuliano de Medici. Just days before his death, he commissioned Michelangelo's painting of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.

1185     b. ????
Lucius III, religious leader, 171st Pope (1181-85).

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