September 25: Banned Books Week begins (2016)
Sultan Bayezid I
- 1396 – Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I (pictured) defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary in the Battle of Nicopolis near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
- 1775 – Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed in their attempt to capture Montreal from British forces.
- 1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonated the forward ammunition magazines and destroyed the ship.
- 1962 – The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah as-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen a republic under his presidency.
- 1996 – The last Magdalene asylum, an Irish institution to rehabilitate so-called "fallen women", was closed.
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