1513CE
Exploration
Balboa Reaches the Pacific
Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Daily Chronicle
September 25
4 Historical Records
1897CE
Birth
William Faulkner Born
William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate known for his complex, stream-of-consciousness prose style and deeply Southern settings. His works, including 'The Sound and the Fury' and 'As I Lay Dying,' explore the moral decay of the American South and are considered masterpieces of modernist literature.
1957CE
Politics
Troops Escort Little Rock Nine
U.S. Army troops escort nine African American students into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1981CE
Politics
Sandra Day O'Connor Sworn In
Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.