About September 1
September 1, 2025 is the 244th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo 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 169 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 1
- 1355 –King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
- 1532 –Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
- 1644 –Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1878 –Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
- 1897 –The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
- 1911 –The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- 1914 –St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
- 1939 –World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning World War II.
- 1961 –The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
- 1969 –A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
- 1970 –Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
- 1972 –In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
- 1974 –The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
- 1980 –Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- 1980 –Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- 1983 –Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
- 1985 –A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
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