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September 26, 1925

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Notable Births

Norm Dussault

1925Norm Dussault, American-Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)[†]

Joseph Normand Marcel "Ti-Nomme" Dussault was an American-born Canadian ice hockey player who played 206 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1947 to 1951. The rest of his career lasted from 1945 to 1955 and was spent in the minor leagues.

Marty Robbins

1925Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and race car driver (died 1982)[†]

Martin David Robinson, known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular and successful singers of his genre for most of his nearly four-decade career, which spanned from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. He was also an early outlaw country pioneer.

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Headlines from September 26, 1925

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (AP). -- The Navy Department early today has received no official confirmation of the reported sinking of the submarine S-51 off Block Island.

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GAS CELL WARNED OF SHENANDOAH FATE; Survivor Tells of Finding One Deflated When Awakened by Pitching of Dirigible. TESTIMONY CAUSES A STIR Naval Court Gets Corroboration of Heinen Theory of Wreck, Based on Changes in Airship. WARNED SURVIVOR OF THE SHENANDOAH

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Chief Aviation Rigger, J H Collier, tells of finding one distended and one deflated gas cell which corroborates Heinen's theory of wreck, his testimony and that of L E Allely and A E Carlson; ships log

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