📜 This Day in History

September 25

• 275After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
• 1237Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing the Anglo-Scottish border, which mostly remains the same today.
• 1800French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, French forces abandoned their invasion of the Batavian island of Curaçao.
• 1944Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.
• 1978While on approach to San Diego International Airport, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collided with a Cessna 172, killing all 137 people on board both aircraft, along with 7 more on the ground.
• 1990The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Born on this day

• 1881Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (died 1936)
• 1897William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
• 1906Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (died 1975)
• 1968Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper