WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. SEPTEMBER
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The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. (25. September 1926)

Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible. (25. September 1929)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan. (25. September 1937)

World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees. (25. September 1942)

World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden. (25. September 1944)

The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. (25. September 1955)

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. (25. September 1956)

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. (25. September 1957)

Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. (25. September 1959)

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. (25. September 1962)

The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah as-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency. (25. September 1962)

Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair. (25. September 1963)

The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed. (25. September 1969)

Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9. (25. September 1970)

In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community. (25. September 1972)

The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John. (25. September 1974)

About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. (25. September 1977)

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. (25. September 1978)

Belize joins the United Nations. (25. September 1981)

Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history. (25. September 1983)