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Selected anniversaries entry for this day. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this entry. --mav 00:20, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

September 25: Centenary of the birth of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (pictured) (1906)

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson of England defeated Harald Hardråde of Norway in Yorkshire in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of Viking invasions of Great Britain.
• 1396 - Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary in the Battle of Nicopolis near present-day Nikopol, Bulgaria.
• 1513 - Conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa, upon a peak in presentday Darién, Panama, became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean, which he named Mar del Sur, or South Sea.
• 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas was elected President of the provisional government, with Ahmed Ben Bella as Prime Minister.
• 1996 - The last Magdalen Asylum in Ireland was closed.

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[edit] Shigeru Miyamoto

I think that the entry about Shigeru Miyamoto is a little bit out of place as something important or to be considered as relevant compared to historical entries.

This is truth.

-- october 1 2005 - 20:20 pm