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This day in history: September 25

1. 1957

   United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.

2. 1962

   The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah al-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen to be a republic under his presidency.

3. 1977

   About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.

4. 1978

   While on approach to San Diego International Airport, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collided with a Cessna 172, killing all 137 people on board both aircraft, along with 7 more on the ground.

5. 1981

   Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

6. 1983

   In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

7. 1990

   The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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