September 25: On This Progressive DayThe U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights (1789)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, NY (1912)
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed; Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government (1962)
The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed (1969)
President B. Hussein Obama and the leaders of France and the UK promote Iran's construction of a secret nuclear weapons facility near Qom (2009)
At Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 51st round of golf as POTUS (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama reads unremarkable, teleprompted speeches, once again, to the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative (2012)
b: Ethel Rosenberg (1915), Shel Silverstein (1930); d: Mikhail Alekseev (1918), Klaus Barbie (1991), Edward Said (2003)
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