History for September 25

History for September 25 - On-This-Day.com
William Faulkner 1897, Barbara Walters 1929 - TV personality, Michael Douglas 1944 - Actor


Mark Hamill 1951 - Actor ("Star Wars"), Christopher Reeve 1952 - Actor ("Superman"), Will Smith 1968 - Actor ("Independence Day," "Fresh Prince of Bell-Air")


1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.















1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.