About September 10
September 10, 2025 is the 253rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 10
- 506 –The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1547 –The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
- 1608 –John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1918 –Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1939 –World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy’s first loss.
- 1946 –While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 1960 –At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1963 –20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
- 1967 –The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1972 –The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
- 1974 –Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1976 –A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 1977 –Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- 2001 –Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2001 –Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- 2007 –Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2008 –The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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