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Events on September 25

• 1493 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Cádiz with 17 ships for his second expedition.
• 1555 The Peace of Augsburg is concluded between Emperor Charles V and the Imperial Estates and, as an imperial law, secures the peace and the possessions of the adherents of the Augsburg Confession.
• 1894 At the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Gerhart Hauptmann's socially critical drama The Weavers, about the 1844 weavers' revolt, is premiered after the performance ban is lifted.
• 1912 The German Book Trade Association announces in Leipzig the establishment of the German Library.
• 1944 Adolf Hitler orders the formation of the “Volkssturm” during the Second World War. All “able-bodied men” between the ages of 16 and 60 who are not yet fighting are to be conscripted.
• 1956 The transatlantic telephone cable TAT-1 is put into operation between Europe (Scotland) and North America (Canada). This transatlantic telephone cable can carry 36 conversations simultaneously.
• 1974 Initiated by Mildred Scheel, German Cancer Aid is founded in Bonn.
• 1983 The 417 km long TGV route from Paris to Lyon is opened in its entirety after trains have been operating on a section of it since 1981.
• 1988 The Essen opera house, the Aalto-Theater, is opened with a performance of Richard Wagner's The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
• 1992 The Main-Danube Canal is completed after 32 years of construction.
• 2001 During his first state visit to Germany, the Russian President Wladimir Putin impresses with his speech before the Bundestag, which he delivers partly in fluent German.
• 2005 The Spaniard Fernando Alonso secures his first world championship title with third place in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Until then, he was the youngest Formula 1 world champion.

Born on September 25

• 1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan, US geneticist
• 1901 Robert Bresson, French film director
• 1902 Ernst von Salomon, German writer
• 1920 Sergei Fjodorowitsch Bondartschuk, Russian actor and director
• 1932 Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist, composer, organist and music writer
• 1942 Volker Rühe, German politician
• 1951 Mark Hamill, US actor
• 1961 Heather Locklear, US actress
• 1972 Steven Gätjen, German-American presenter
• 1982 Benjamin Griffey, German rapper (known as Casper)

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „25. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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