GMT 9-25-2018

Today in History September 25

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.

1775 British troops capture Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, when he and a handful of Americans try to invade Canada.

1789 Congress proposes 12 new amendments to the Constitution.

1804 The 12th Amendment is ratified, changing the procedure of choosing the president and vice-president.

1918 Brazil declares war on Austria.

1937 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich.

1942 The War Labor Board orders equal pay for women in the United States.

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice, is sworn in.

1983 Maze Prison escape, County Antrim, Northern Ireland; 38 IRA prisoners escape in the largest prison breakout in British history; known among Irish republicans as the Great Escape.


Born on September 25


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

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

DANGER! BEWARE OF DOG! Inside, he sees a harmless old hound asleep on the floor.
“Is that the dog we’re supposed to be aware of?” he asks the owner.
“That’s him,” comes the reply.
“He doesn’t look at all dangerous to me. Why would you post that sign?”
“Before I posted that sign, people kept tripping over him.”