Editing September 25 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[Leonardo Torres Quevedo]] demonstrates the ''Telekino'' in the [[Bilbao Abra]] ([[Spain]]), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over {{cvt|2|km}}, in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.<ref>{{cite web|title=1902 – Telekine (Telekino) – Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish)|date=2010-12-17|url=https://cyberneticzoo.com/early-robot-enabling-technologies/1902-telekine-telekino-leonardo-torres-quevedo-spanish/}}</ref><ref>Randy Alfred, "[https://www.wired.com/2011/11/1107wireless-remote-control/ Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public]", ''Wired'', 7 November 2011.</ref><ref name="Yuste2008">{{cite journal |author=A.P. Yuste |title=Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame. Early Developments of Wireless Remote Control: The Telekino of Torres-Quevedo |volume=96 |issue=1 |date=January 2008 |journal=[[Proceedings of the IEEE]]|doi=10.1109/JPROC.2007.909931 |s2cid=111010868 |url=http://oa.upm.es/1968/ }}</ref>
*[[1911]] &ndash; An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the [[French battleship Liberté|French battleship ''Liberté'']] detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] is founded in New York City.
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The [[Second Battle of Champagne]] begins.
*[[1918]] &ndash; World War I: The end of the [[Battle of Megiddo (1918)|Battle of Megiddo]], the climax of the British Army's [[Sinai and Palestine campaign]] under General [[Edmund Allenby]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Battle of Megiddo {{!}} National Army Museum |url=https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/battle-megiddo |website=www.nam.ac.uk |access-date=23 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1926]] &ndash; The international [[1926 Slavery Convention|Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery]] is first signed.
*[[1937]] &ndash; Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the [[Battle of Pingxingguan]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division [[Operation Berlin (Arnhem)|withdraw from Arnhem]] via Oosterbeek.
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[Royal Jordanian Air Force]] is founded.
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[TAT-1]], the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Little Rock Central High School|Central High School]] in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Solomon Bandaranaike]], Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, [[Talduwe Somarama]], and dies the next day.
*[[1962]] &ndash; The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. [[Ferhat Abbas]] is elected President of the provisional government.
*  1962   &ndash; 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.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning|Lord Denning]] releases the UK government's official report on the [[Profumo affair]].
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[Mozambican War of Independence]] against Portugal begins.
*[[1969]] &ndash; The charter establishing the [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] is signed.
*[[1974]] &ndash; Dr. [[Frank Jobe]] performs first [[Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction|ulnar collateral ligament replacement]] surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player [[Tommy John]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the [[Chicago Marathon]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[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. <ref>{{ASN accident|id=19780925-0}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Belize]] joins the United Nations.
*[[1983]] &ndash; Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way [[Maze Prison escape|out of the Maze Prison]].
*[[1985]] &ndash; 3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in [[Larnaca yacht killings]]. <ref>{{Cite news|last=Rogg|first=Margaret L.|date=1985-09-26|title=3 Israelis Slain by Palestinians in Cyprus |language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/26/world/3-israelis-slain-by-palestinians-in-cyprus.html|access-date=2022-02-17|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2018-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021182314/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/26/world/3-israelis-slain-by-palestinians-in-cyprus.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; Fijian Governor-General [[Penaia Ganilau]] is overthrown in a [[1987 Fijian coups d'état#September coup|coup d'état]] led by Lieutenant colonel [[Sitiveni Rabuka]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/07/world/fiji-coup-leader-declares-republic.html|title=Fiji coup leader declares republic|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=7 October 1987|access-date=26 November 2024}}</ref>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[NASA]] launches the ''[[Mars Observer]]''. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
*[[1997]] &ndash; NASA launches [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] on [[STS-86]] to the ''[[Mir]]'' space station.<ref name="spacefacts">{{Cite web |title=STS-86 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-86.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520023309/http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-80.htm |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |access-date=January 3, 2018 |publisher=Spacefacts}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[PauknAir Flight 4101]], a [[British Aerospace 146]], crashes near [[Melilla Airport]] in [[Melilla]], Spain, killing 38 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace BAe-146-100 EC-GEO Melilla Airport (MLN)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980925-0|access-date=2021-06-01|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; The 8.3 {{M|w}} [[2003 Hokkaidō earthquake|Hokkaidō earthquake]] strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[Bill Cosby]] is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for [[aggravated sexual assault]].