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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/844" title="844">844</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_expansion" title="Viking expansion">Viking expansion</a>: A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Viking</a> fleet arrived near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville" title="Seville">Seville</a>, then part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" title="Emirate of Córdoba">Emirate of Córdoba</a>, and began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_raid_on_Seville" title="Viking raid on Seville">a raid of the city</a></b> that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790" title="1790">1790</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_opera" title="Peking opera">Peking opera</a></b> was born with the introduction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_opera" title="Hui opera">Hui opera</a> to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianlong_Emperor" title="Qianlong Emperor">Qianlong Emperor</a>'s 80th birthday.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890" title="1890">1890</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park" title="Sequoia National Park">Sequoia National Park</a></b> was established to conserve <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum" title="Sequoiadendron giganteum">giant sequoia</a> trees in an area affected by logging in the southern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada" title="Sierra Nevada">Sierra Nevada</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983" title="1983">1983</a> –  In <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape" title="Maze Prison escape">one of the largest prison escapes in British history</a></b>, 38 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army" title="Provisional Irish Republican Army">Provisional Irish Republican Army</a> prisoners hijacked a prison meals <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck" title="Truck">lorry</a> and broke out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Maze" title="HM Prison Maze">HM Prison Maze</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Antrim" title="County Antrim">County Antrim</a>, Northern Ireland.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005" title="2005">2005</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Longwang" title="Typhoon Longwang">Typhoon Longwang</a></b>, the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit China in that year, formed just north of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Islands" title="Mariana Islands">Mariana Islands</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Hardrada" title="Harald Hardrada">Harald Hardrada</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1066); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lymburn" title="John Lymburn">John Lymburn</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1880); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Breland_Bailey" title="Marian Breland Bailey">Marian Breland Bailey</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2001); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Bingzhang_(general)" title="Wang Bingzhang (general)">Wang Bingzhang</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2005)</p>