Today in History

September 25

1959 - Sri Lankan Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is assassinated. 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.

1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in as the first female US Supreme Court justice.

1983 - Syria and Saudi Arabia reach a ceasefire agreement for Lebanon. 1990 - The UN Security Council imposes an air embargo against Iraq and Kuwait.

2005 - A US military helicopter crashes during an anti-militant operation in Afghanistan, killing all five American crew members.

2017 - Iraqi Kurds vote in an independence referendum.