Historical timeline for September 25

Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.

NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.

Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

Belize joins the United Nations.

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.

About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.