On September 25 in:
1493 Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the Pacific Ocean.
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1789 The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification, which became the Bill of Rights.
1897 Author William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Miss.
1956 The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable went into service.
1964 Laurie shows up giving the Stenzels yet another day to celebrate.*
*Coincidentally, NBC broadcast the first episode of the TV show,
Flipper, just a few days before on September 18, 1964…
