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Today in History: September 25

303 On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France

1396 The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bayezid I's Ottoman army at Nicopolis.

1789 Congress proposes 12 new amendments to the Constitution.

1918 Brazil declares war on Austria.

1992 NASA launches Mars Observer probe; it fails 11 months later.

1996 Ireland's last Magdalene laundry closes; begun as asylums to rehabilitate "fallen women," they increasingly took on prison-like qualities.

2009 US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy jointly accuse Iran of building a secrecy nuclear enrichment facility.

2020 Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, is the first rat to be awarded a prestigious PDSA hero award, for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia

2021 UK announces temporary visas to try and counteract shortage of lorry drivers for deliveries to the UK amid panic buying on fuel

2023 US President Joe Biden hosts a summit of leaders from the Pacific, in an effort to counter influence of China

Born on September 25

1897 William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning writer (The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!).

1944 Michael Douglas, actor, producer; his numerous awards include two Academy Awards (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wall Street), four Golden Globes and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (The Darling Buds of May British TV series) won Academy Award and BAFTA Award for her role in Chicago.

JOTD

Passenger asked a flight attended “How often do planes crash?”

Flight attended “Just once.”