Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 25
Reuters
1926 - Slavery Convention signed by 20 states at League of Nations.
1932 - The Spanish region of Catalonia was granted autonomy.
1943 - The Russians liberated Smolensk, one of the most important bastions still left to the Germans in Russia, during World War Two.
1957 - U.S. National Guardsmen escorted nine black students into Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in an attempt at desegregation.
1983 - Leopold III, king of Belgium 1934-51, died. He became a national embarrassment and was forced to abdicate in 1951 because of his alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1997 - The British Thrust SuperSonic car set a new land speed record in Nevada of 714.1 mph (1,149.2 kph).
2001 - Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, leaving Pakistan as the last state still recognising the Taliban government.
2002 - Indian commandos stormed the Akshardham Temple in western Gujarat, ending a siege and killing two gunmen who had massacred 28 people and wounded more than 70 the night before.
2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian intellectual, died. A comparative literature professor at Columbia, he was also a literary critic and theoretician and a prominent Palestinian activist.
2003 - Franco Modigliani, who fled his native Italy under fascism and won a Nobel prize in economics in 1985, died. He was 85.
2003 - French actress Clotilde Courau marries Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last king.
