Today in History - History - September 25th

1973Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium

1992Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager

1994Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1926Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week

192034th US Women's Tennis: Molla Mallory beats M Zinderstein (6-3 6-1)

1970Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues"

1984NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s

19269th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club in Westbury, New York

1992"Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC

1493Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas

1944Michael Douglas, NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)

1968Will Smith [The Fresh Prince], actor/rapper (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince)

1969Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress (Christopher Columbus)

1897William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)

1954"Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock

1965Novelist Danielle Steel (18) weds banker Claude-Eric Lazard

2004Academy Award winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado

1845Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister's daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi

1889Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Laura Bond

1988Actor Paul Gross (29) weds actress Martha Burns

1953Statesman Mikhail Gorbachev (22) weds Raisa Maximovna (21) at a Komsomol wedding ceremony

1926Outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds Roy Thornton

1987Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81

1974Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakoff], dies at 73