September 25, 2023: This Day in History

On September 25, 1066, King Harold II of England defeated the Norwegian army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in York. King Harald Hardrada of Norway was killed, ending Viking rule in England.

On September 25, 1396, Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire led his army to victory over a Christian coalition of Hungarian and French forces at the Battle of Nicopolis.

On September 25, 1513, following the discovery of the Florida peninsula by Ponce de León of Spain, Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.

On September 25, 1555, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V signed the Peace of Augsburg with the Protestant princes of Germany.

On September 25, 1660, the Consort of the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Consort Donggo, was posthumously honored as Empress Duanjing.

On September 25, 1789, twelve amendments to the United States Constitution were proposed. Ten of these were later passed by the U.S. Congress and are known as the Bill of Rights. The second was passed in 1992 and became the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

On September 25, 1851, the Taiping Army captured Yong'an Prefecture.

On September 25, 1924, the Leifeng Pagoda in Hangzhou collapsed.

On September 25, 1933, Chiang Kai-shek launched the fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Soviet areas.

On September 25, 1937, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army achieved a major victory at Pingxingguan.

On September 25, 1941, the British battleship Barham was sunk by German forces, resulting in 859 deaths.

On September 25, 1941, the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain made their heroic leap off a cliff.

On September 25, 1949, Tao Zhiyue and Bao Erhan led their troops in an uprising in Xinjiang.

On September 25, 1952, China's first domestically produced 3000-watt hydroelectric generator was successfully trial-produced at the Northeast Electric Machinery Factory.

On September 25, 1959, Chinese petroleum exploration workers discovered industrial oil flow in the continental sedimentary rocks of the Songliao Basin in Northeast China. The oil field was named "Daqing Oil Field".

On September 25, 1966, Japan was hit by a typhoon, resulting in over 300 deaths and missing persons.

On September 25, 1979, Israel returned 2,600 square miles of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

On September 25, 1981, the first female Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history was sworn in.

On September 25, 1982, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship again.

On September 25, 1982, a landslide in El Salvador resulted in the death of 60 people attending a religious service at a church.

On September 25, 1986, Shenyang Explosion-proof Equipment Factory was auctioned off as a whole.

On September 25, 1991, the Supreme Court of Japan ruled that government officials visiting the Yasukuni Shrine was unconstitutional.

On September 25, 1991, the sequel to "Gone With the Wind", "Scarlett", was published.

On September 25, 1993, the Yinhe cargo ship returned to port.

On September 25, 1993, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tanggu Expressway was fully opened to traffic.

On September 25, 1997, Hong Kong held its first major international conference after its return to China.

On September 25, 1998, China C (City) Network was officially launched.

On September 25, 2007, Fukuda Yasuo was elected as the 91st Prime Minister of Japan.