Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 25

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 * 275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
 * 1066 – Harold Godwinson defeated King Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, ending the last Norse invasion of the British Isles.
 * 1237 – Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York, establishing the Anglo-Scottish border, which mostly remains the same today.
 * 1396 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed to capture the city of Montreal from British forces.
 * 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: After U.S. ships became involved, French forces abandoned their invasion of the Batavian island of Curaçao.
 * 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship.
 * 1944 – Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.
 * 1957 – United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.
 * 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah al-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen to be a republic under his presidency.
 * 1977 – About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.
 * 1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 * 1990 – The 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/died this day: | Johann Heinrich Lambert |d|1777| Oliver Loving |d|1867| Robert Brackman |b|1898| Jacqueline Audry |b|1908| Jessie Murray |d|1920| Miller Huggins |d|1929| Glenn Gould |b|1932| Johannes Brost |b|1946| Cheryl Tiegs |b|1947| Catherine Zeta-Jones |b|1969| John Bonham |d|1980| José Fernández |d|2016