Today in History for 25th September 2017:
Historical Events
1212 – Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
1947 – 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends
1949 – Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
1972 – KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 – Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium
1988 – Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
Famous Birthdays
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1902 – Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1960 – John Hills, horse trainer
1969 – David Weathers, Lawrencburg TN, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Yankees)
1974 – Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
Famous Deaths
1898 – Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, French anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs, dies at 77
1918 – John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1959 – Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1991 – Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)