ome interesting history facts for Sept 25th: • 1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border. • 1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. • 1790 – Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperors eightieth birthday. • 1890 – The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. • 1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port ofBilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control. • 1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston • 1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. • 1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed. • 1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible. • 1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. • 1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. • 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. • 1974 – The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John. • 1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon. • 1981 – Belize joins the United Nations. • 1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail. • 1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland
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