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
- 462 –Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- 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.
- 1715 –King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
- 1859 –Solar Superstorm
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1873 –Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1902 –A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- 1910 –Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- 1911 –The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- 1920 –The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
- 1934 –SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- 1961 –The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
- 1969 –Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
- 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.
- 1979 –The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21000 km.
- 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.
- 1990 –The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
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