Today is Wednesday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2025. There are 98 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Sept. 24, 2017, more than 200 NFL players kneeled or sat during the national anthem after President Donald Trump criticized the players’ protests in a speech and a series of tweets.
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In 1789, President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.
In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Devil’s Tower in Wyoming as the first U.S. national monument.
In 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratified a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing.
In 1968, the TV news magazine “60 Minutes” premiered on CBS.
In 1969, the trial of the Chicago Eight, later the Chicago Seven, began. (Five were later convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, but the convictions were ultimately overturned.)
In 1988, Jackie Joyner-Kersey won gold and set a world record in the women’s heptathlon at the Summer Olympics in Seoul.
In 2013, a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest Pakistan, killing at least 376 people.
In 2015, a stampede and crush of Muslim pilgrims occurred in the holy city of Mina, Saudi Arabia. While the official Saudi death toll stood at 769, The Associated Press estimated that more than 2,400 people were killed.
In 2022, Russian forces launched new strikes on Ukrainian cities as Kremlin-orchestrated votes took place in occupied regions of Ukraine to create a pretext for their annexation by Moscow.
Today’s Birthdays: Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is 79. Actor Gordon Clapp is 77. Actor Harriet Walter is 75. Filmmaker Brad Bird is 68. Actor Kevin Sorbo is 67. Actor-screenwriter Nia Vardalos is 63. Celebrity chef Robert Irvine is 60. Actor Jackie Sandler is 51. Actor Ian Bohen is 49. TV personality Ross Matthews is 46. Olympic gold medal gymnast Paul Hamm is 43. Actor Spencer Treat Clark is 38. Actor Grey Damon is 38. Actor Ben Platt is 32. Actor Joe Locke is 22.
Today is Thursday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2025. There are 97 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Sept. 25, 1957, 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 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard.
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In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.
In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)
In 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.
In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.
In 2005, in the presence of disarmament observers, the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its arsenal of weapons, officially ending a 36-year armed campaign for a unified Irish state.
In 2012, President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him “a dictator who massacres his own people.”
In 2013, skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay.
In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to-10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)
Today’s Birthdays: Basketball Hall of Famer Hubie Brown is 92. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is 82. Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 81. Model Cheryl Tiegs is 78. Actor Mimi Kennedy is 77. Film director Pedro Almodovar is 76. Actor-director Anson Williams is 76. Actor Mark Hamill is 74. Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo is 74. Actor Heather Locklear is 64. Actor Aida Turturro is 63. Actor Tate Donovan is 62. Actor Maria Doyle Kennedy is 61. Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 60. Actor Will Smith is 57. Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones is 56. Football Hall of Famer John Lynch is 54. Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is 49. Actor Clea DuVall is 48. Rapper T.I. is 45. Actor-rapper Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) is 42. Actor Zach Woods is 41. Actor Jordan Gavaris is 36. Actor Leah Jeffries is 16.