Today is Thursday, September 25, the 268th day of 2014. There are 97 days left in the year.
1493 ― Columbus sails on second voyage to America
1882 ― First baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1919 ― President Wilson becomes seriously ill and collapses after a speech
1926 ― Henry Ford announces the 8-hour, 5-day workweek
1939 ― Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1957 ― Soviet 7-year plan (1959-1965) announced
1962 ― Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in first round for heavyweight title
1973 ― Three-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1981 ― Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as first female supreme court justice
1988 ― Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54 seconds
1990 ― Saddam Hussein warns U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience