Bill Cosby sentenced – Chicago Tribune
Today is Thursday, September 25, the 268th day of 2025. It remains 97 days a year.
Today in history:
On September 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugs and assauling a woman in his suburban home in Philadelphia. (After having served almost three years, Cosby freed himself in June 2021 after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania canceled his conviction.)
Also on this date:
In 1513, the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean.
In 1789, the first American congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the States for ratification. (Ten of the changes have become the Declaration of Rights.)
In 1956, the first transatlantic telephone cable was officially put into service with a three -cereal call between New York, Ottawa and London.
In 1957, nine black students who had been forced to withdraw from central secondary school in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to unruly white crowds were escorted in class by members of the 101st air division of the US military and the National Guard.
In 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided on San Diego.
In 2005, in the presence of disarmament observers, the Irish republican army embodied its arsenal of arms, officially ending a 36 -year -old armed campaign for a unified Irish state.
In 2012, President Barack Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, promised us support for the Syrians who try to evoke President Bashar Assad, calling him “dictator who massacred his own people”.
In 2013, the skipper Jimmy Spithill and the Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup with one of the greatest returns in the history of sport, passing in front of Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the 19 -Bay race on the Bay of San Francisco.
The birthdays of today: Hubie Brown of Basketball Hubie Brown is 92 years old. Former defense secretary, Robert Gates, is 82 years old. The actor-producer Michael Douglas is 81 years old. The model Cheryl Tiegs is 78 years old. Actor Mimi Kennedy is 77 years old. Director Pedro Almodovar is 76 years old. Actor-Director Anson Williams is 76. Actor Heather Locklear is 64 years old. The actor Aida Turturro is 63 years old. The actor Tate Donovan is 62 years old. Actor Maria Doyle Kennedy is 61 years old. Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 60 years old. The actor Will Smith is 57 years old. Clea Duvall is 48 years old. Rapper Ti is 45 years old. Actor-reporter Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) is 42 years old. Actor Zach Woods is 41 years old. Actor Jordan Gavaris is 36 years old. The actor Leah Jeffries is 16 years old.
