About September 25
September 25, 2024 is the 269th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 126 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 25
- 275 –In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
- 1066 –The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
- 1396 –Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
- 1513 –Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
- 1690 –Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- 1775 –Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
- 1846 –U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
- 1906 –In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
- 1911 –Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1956 –TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
- 1957 –Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
- 1959 –Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
- 1970 –Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
- 1977 –About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
- 1978 –PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
- 1981 –Belize joins the United Nations.
- 1992 –NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
- 1996 –The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
- 2003 –A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 2008 –China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
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