A Daily Dose of History (25 Sep 2026) Today's historical events:
- Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
- Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
- Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
- The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
- The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
- TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.
- Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
- Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
- At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
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