SEPTEMBER 25
1997:President Bill Clinton, himself an Arkansas native, opens the school doors for the "Little Rock Nine," now in their 50s. Exactly 40 years earlier, the black teenagers were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., by the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division amid angry protests from a segregationist mob.
1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama, becoming the first European on record to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World.
1789: The United States Congress passes 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification; 10 are successfully ratified as the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing Americans the basic civil rights championed by George Mason and other Bill of Rights supporters.
1965: Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes the oldest player to hit 50 home runs in a season, at the ripe old age of 34. A decade earlier, Mays also hit 50 homers in a season, becoming the youngest player to do so. Both records have since been broken.
1956:The first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, TAT-1, is inaugurated
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