{"date":"September 25","month":9,"day":25,"headline":"On This Day in History: September 25","events":[{"year":1990,"text":"The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, began in the Indian state of Gujarat.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Advani_Yatra_1990.svg/330px-Advani_Yatra_1990.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Rath_Yatra"},{"year":1983,"text":"In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.","thumbnail":null,"link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape"},{"year":1981,"text":"Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor.jpg/330px-Sandra_Day_O%27Connor.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O'Connor"},{"year":1978,"text":"While on approach to San Diego International Airport, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collided with a Cessna 172, killing all 137 people on board both aircraft, along with 7 more on the ground.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/SAN_logo_new_Sep_2025.png/330px-SAN_logo_new_Sep_2025.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport"},{"year":1977,"text":"About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/Chicago_Marathon_logo_%28gradient%29.svg/330px-Chicago_Marathon_logo_%28gradient%29.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Marathon"},{"year":1962,"text":"The North Yemen Civil War began when Abdullah al-Sallal dethroned the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declared Yemen to be a republic under his presidency.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/North_Yemen_Civil_War.jpg/330px-North_Yemen_Civil_War.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_civil_war"},{"year":1957,"text":"United States Army troops escorted nine students as Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Mark_of_the_United_States_Army.svg/330px-Mark_of_the_United_States_Army.svg.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army"},{"year":1944,"text":"Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the Allies' Operation Market Garden in defeat.","thumbnail":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-646-5188-17%2C_Flugzeuge_Junkers_Ju_87.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","link":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II"}],"quote":"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.","quote_author":"Winston Churchill","source":"Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia"}