Step Back in Time: Unforgettable Events That Shaped History on September 25

Today is Wednesday, September 25, the 268th day of 2024. There are 98 days until the end of the year.

1493 – The Spanish navigator of Italian origin, Christopher Columbus, set sail from the port of Cadiz on his second voyage to the New World, which he discovered in 1492.

1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.

1555 – With the Peace of Augsburg, the German Lutheran countries/Protestants were equalized in rights with the Catholic states.

1744 – The Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II was born, who followed a policy of territorial expansion of the country during his reign from 1786 until his death in 1797, benefiting particularly from the second and third partitions of Poland in 1793 and 1795. From 1792 to 1795 , joined Austria in an alliance against revolutionary France.

1823 – Serbian writer and language reformer Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Jena.

1849. – The Austrian Kapellmeister and composer Johan Strauss – the Elder, father of the popular Viennese composers Johan Mlađe, Jozef and Eduard, most responsible for the wide spread of the light Viennese waltz at the beginning of the 19th century, died. First, he was the conductor of several entertainment orchestras, then the court dance orchestra in Vienna. He composed a large number of waltzes, quadrilles, marches, polkas, gallops.

1866 – Birth of the American biologist and geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, founder of genetics, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1933 for discovering the function of chromosomes in the transmission of hereditary characteristics. He made the first maps of the position of genes in chromosomes and is considered the main representative of the chromosomal theory of inheritance.

1896 – Italian statesman Alessandro Pertini was born, president of Italy from 1978 to 1985, the most popular Italian politician after the Second World War. He became a member of the Italian Socialist Party in 1918, spent several years in fascist prisons, took part in the Resistance Movement in the Second World War, and then was a deputy and a senator.

1897 – The American writer William Faulkner, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, was born, who was interested in the problem of evil. The social history of South America showed the decline and decay of the native aristocracy and the cruelty and carelessness of the newcomers. Works: novels “Sartoris”, “Light in August”, “Mosquitoes”, “The Bear”, “Equestrian Gambit”, “Intruder in the Dust”, “Wild Palms”, “Salary Soldier”, “The Old Man”, “Lord’s House”, “Requiem for a Temptress”, “Thugs”, “Refuge”, short stories “The Sanctuary” and “The Unconquered”.

1897 – The Serbian writer Aleksandar Vučo, the forerunner of modern children’s poetry in Serbian literature, was born. Between the two world wars, he belonged to the surrealist movement. Work: novels “Gluvo doba” / with Dušan Matić/, “Koren vid”, “Vacation”, “Mrtve javke”, “Szluge”, “Invitation to imagination”, “Omame”, “And so on, I charm”, “Omame – the end”, poems “Humor Zaspalo”, “Nemenikuće – Ćirilo i Metodije”, “Mastodonts”, a collection of poems “Roof over the window”, “If I remember one more time”, “Poems”, “Algae”, “I want to be a guy and a half”.

1906 – Russian composer Dmitri Dmitrijevich Shostakovich was born, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, whose compositions are firmly linked to Russia’s musical past, which inspired him to create a style of satire that is often emphasized. He wrote the monumental “Fifth Symphony”, and during the most difficult days of the German siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, the “Seventh Symphony”. Other works: operas “The Nose”, “Lady Macbeth of the Mscen District / Katarina Izmajlovna/”, oratorio “The Forests Sing”, symphonies, concerts, chamber music.

1932 – Autonomy is granted to the Spanish province of Catalonia.

1940 – In German-occupied Norway during the Second World War, a puppet government was enthroned by the leader of the Norwegian fascists, Vidkun Quisling, whose name became synonymous with betrayal and collaboration with the Nazi occupiers throughout Europe. In 1945, Quisling was sentenced to death as a traitor and shot.

1942 – The first congress of partisan doctors and medical workers of Yugoslavia was held in Bosanski Petrovac during the Second World War, and from there an invitation was sent to doctors and medical students to join the fight against the occupiers.

1943 – The Red Army in World War II liberated Smolensk, one of the last significant strongholds of the Nazi German forces on the territory of the Soviet Union.

1956 – The first transatlantic telephone cable was used, laid between Oben, Scotland and Newfoundland, Canada.

1959 – The Prime Minister of Ceylon, Solomon Bandaranaike, was assassinated in Colombo by a Buddhist monk. The Prime Minister of Ceylon succumbed to his injuries a day later.

1963 – The army in the Dominican Republic overthrew the liberal government of Juan Bos Gavinjo, which had been formed seven months earlier.

1970 – The German writer Erich Marija Remark died, who showed the senselessness of human killing in the First World War with the novel “Nothing New in the West”. That and his other novels were extremely successful among readers because of the dexterity in composing the plot, the simple style, the limited number of characters and the themes of war and occupation, concentration camps, and inflation. The books of this anti-fascist and anti-militarist, who described the brutality of the Nazis, the racism and inhumane methods of the Third Reich, were burned at Nazi pyres. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1932, then to the USA and became an American citizen in 1947. Other works: “The Return”, “Three War Comrades”, “Heaven Knows No Favorites”, “Spark of Life”, “Black Obelisk” , “Triumphal Gate”, “Love Your Neighbor”, “A Time of Life and a Time of Death”.

1972 – Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka arrived in Beijing as the first Japanese head of government to set foot on Chinese soil after World War II.

1973 – The American spacecraft “Skylab 2” landed in the Pacific Ocean with three crew members, which spent 59 days in orbit around the Earth.

1978 – A Boeing 727 passenger plane over San Diego collided with a small plane, killing 151 people, including 14 on the ground.

1991 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously introduced an arms import embargo to all parties to the war in Yugoslavia.

1992 – Moscow and Washington rejected one of the last vestiges of the “Cold War”, allowing freedom of travel to Russian and American journalists and businessmen working in Russia and the United States, respectively.

1994 – In a referendum, Switzerland approved the government’s plan to pass a law against racism.

1997 – A British supersonic car set a new world land speed record of 1,142 kilometers per hour in Nevada.

2001 – FBiH Minister of Refugees and Displaced Persons, Sefer Halilović surrendered to the Hague Tribunal, which accused him of violating the laws and customs of war.

2016 – The first referendum was held in the Republika Srpska, and the question was – “Do you support marking and celebrating January 9 as the day of the Republika Srpska?”, and 99.81 percent of the citizens who came out to vote responded positively.

Follow us on our Facebook f
Instagram page, as well as on
X order