September 25: on this day in history

Historical events

1. 1555The Peace of Augsburg was signed, granting German princes the right to choose Catholicism or Lutheranism for their territories.
2. 1690Publick Occurrences, one of the first newspapers in the Americas, was published in Boston; only one issue appeared.
3. 1890The US Congress established Sequoia National Park in California to protect the giant sequoia trees.
4. 1906Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo publicly demonstrated the wireless remote-control system he had developed.
5. 1956TAT-1, the first telephone cable beneath the Atlantic Ocean, entered service.

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