Today in History for 25th September 2023

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Historical Events

1866 - (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia
1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central High School in Arkansas
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2012 - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands

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Famous Birthdays

1612 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian, born in Bergen-op-Zoom, The Netherlands (d. 1653)
1816 - Anton de Kontski [Antoni Kątski], Polish-American pianist and composer (Awakening Of The Lion), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1899) [some sources cite birth as 1817-10-27]
1846 - Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], German meteorologist and climatologist who developed the Köppen climate classification system for the regions of the world, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1940)
1896 - Roberto Gerhard, Spanish Catalan composer (the Plague), born in Valls, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1970)
1952 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born in New York City (d. 2004)
1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball player, born in Neptune City, New Jersey

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Famous Deaths

1066 - Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies at the Battle of Stamford Bridge at 51 - his death often considered the end of the Viking Age
1716 - Johann Christoph Pez, German Baroque composer, dies at 52
1914 - Alfred Lichtenstein, German writer, dies at 25
1970 - Efim Golishev, Ukrainian painter and composer, dies at 73
1986 - Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74), dies at 77
1995 - Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, dies at 104

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