Today is Wednesday, September 25, 2024, marking the 269th day of the year with 97 days remaining.

Historical Events on This Day:

On September 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three-to-ten years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his home in suburban Philadelphia. (Cosby was released in June 2021 after his conviction was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court).

Other notable events on this date include:

• In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean after crossing the Isthmus of Panama.
• In 1789, the first United States Congress approved 12 amendments to the Constitution, with ten of them becoming the Bill of Rights.
• In 1956, the trans-Atlantic telephone cable was inaugurated with a call between New York, Ottawa, and London.
• In 1957, nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, were escorted back to class by the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard.
• In 1978, a tragic collision between a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane over San Diego resulted in the loss of 144 lives.
• In 2005, the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its weapons, officially ending a 36-year armed campaign for a unified Irish state.
• In 2012, President Barack Obama expressed U.S. support for Syrians seeking to oust President Bashar Assad during his address to the U.N. General Assembly.

Birthdays Today:

• Basketball Hall of Famer Hubie Brown turns 91.
• Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates celebrates his 81st birthday.
• Actor-producer Michael Douglas turns 80.
• Model Cheryl Tiegs is 77 today.
• Actor Mimi Kennedy celebrates her 76th birthday.
• Film director Pedro Almodovar turns 75.
• Actor-director Anson Williams is also 75.
• Actor Mark Hamill celebrates his 73rd birthday.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo turns 73.
• Actor Michael Madsen is 66 today.
• Actor Heather Locklear celebrates her 63rd birthday.
• Actor Aida Turturro is 62.
• Actor Tate Donovan turns 61.
• Actor Maria Doyle Kennedy celebrates her 60th birthday.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen turns 59.
• Actor Will Smith is 56.
• Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones turns 55.
• Football Hall of Famer John Lynch is 53.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups turns 48.
• Actor Clea DuVall is 47 today.
• Rapper T.I. celebrates his 44th birthday.
• Actor-rapper Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, turns 41.
• Actor Zach Woods is 40.
• Actor Jordan Gavaris turns 35.
• Actor Leah Jeffries celebrates her 15th birthday.