On today’s date September 25, 1775, The British Army captured Ethan Allen while he was leading an attack on Montreal during the American Revolutionary War.
Allen was held on Royal Navy ships and imprisoned in Cornwall, England over a two year period before his release and return to the United States through a prisoner exchange.

Engraving of Allen before his captors in Montreal via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Born September 25, 1930 Shel Silverstein could write pretty much anything – books of stories, poems for children and adults, plays and songs, as well as draw cartoons. He penned hit songs like “Sylvia’s Mother,” “the Cover of Rolling Stone,” “The Unicorn,” and Johnny Cash’s hit “A Boy Named Sue.”

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On September 25, 1789, Congress proposed 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, 10 of which are now known as The Bill of Rights.

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William Faulkner, born September 25, 1897, wrote some of the classic American novels set in the South as well as screenplays for 50 Hollywood films. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 but ironically, did not graduate high school and received a “D” in English at the University of Mississippi.

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On September 25, 1513, Vasco Núñez de Balboa sights the Pacific Ocean from Panama.

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Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The first multi-page newspaper published in Colonial America, called “Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick,”
appeared for the first and only time on September 25, 1690 in Boston.

Another newspaper wouldn’t be printed for another fourteen years.

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On September 25, 1957, President Eisenhower ordered soldiers of the 101st Airborne to escort nine students into Little Rock Central High School during controversy over desegregation in the Arkansas capital.

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Christopher Reeve who played the role of Superman in films from the late 1970s through the late 1980s was born in New York City on September 25, 1952.

His father was a Russian translator from Philadelphia and his mother was a descendant of William Bradford, Governor of the Plymouth Colony.

Image from Warner Bros. c. 1978 via Alamy

On September 25, 1890, Sequoia National Park in California was established. It’s home to the over 2,000-year-old General Sherman Tree which is the largest living tree in the world.

Image of John Muir with family and friends at the General Sherman Tree in 1902 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

On September 25, 1913, Charlie Chaplin signed a contract with Keystone Studios to appear in films for $150 per week.

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The Partridge Family premiered on September 25, 1970.

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West entrance to Red Canyon. Road to Bryce.

September 25, 1929

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Prof. Chas. Gilmore of Smithsonian Institution with dinosaur Diplodocus vertebrae

9/25/1924

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Seven-time World Series Champion Phil Rizzuto was born on September 25, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York.

Image of New York Yankee Phil Rizzuto at bat in front of a group of fellow US Navy Sailors in the South Pacific in the 1940s
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Jack Benny with his daughter Joan in 1940

Happy National Daughters Day

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