Today in History: September 25, Military escorts Little Rock Nine into Central High
In the present day is Thursday Sept the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On Sept nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U S Army s st Airborne Division and the National Guard Also on this date In Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean Related Articles Massachusetts police chief backs DHS claim that news video of ICE interaction fell short Sister Jean longtime Loyola Chicago chaplain and March Madness icon retires at Very mean squirrel seeking food has sent at least people to the ER in California Trump administration to hold back grants from NYC Chicago Fairfax schools over bathroom policies Sexually transmitted illness cases fall but not syphilis in newborns In the first United States Congress adopted amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights In the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into utility with a three-way ceremonial call between New York Ottawa and London In people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing and a private plane collided over San Diego In in the presence of disarmament observers the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its arsenal of weapons officially ending a -year armed campaign for a unified Irish state In President Barack Obama speaking to the U N General Assembly pledged U S endorsement for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad calling him a dictator who massacres his own people In skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Organization USA won the America s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Company New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race on San Francisco Bay In Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to- years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home After serving nearly three years Cosby went free in June after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction The present day s Birthdays Basketball Hall of Famer Hubie Brown is Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is Actor-producer Michael Douglas is Model Cheryl Tiegs is Actor Mimi Kennedy is Film director Pedro Almodovar is Actor-director Anson Williams is Actor Mark Hamill is Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo is Actor Heather Locklear is Actor Aida Turturro is Actor Tate Donovan is Actor Maria Doyle Kennedy is Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is Actor Will Smith is Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones is Football Hall of Famer John Lynch is Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is Actor Clea DuVall is Rapper T I is Actor-rapper Donald Glover Childish Gambino is Actor Zach Woods is Actor Jordan Gavaris is Actor Leah Jeffries is
