On This Day: September 25th

Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.

NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.

Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

Belize joins the United Nations.

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.