About September 13

September 13, 2025 is the 256th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 157 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On September 13

  • 335
    Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
  • 533
    General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
  • 1229
    Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
  • 1609
    Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
  • 1812
    War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
  • 1814
    In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1847
    Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
  • 1850
    First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
  • 1882
    The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
  • 1899
    Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
  • 1906
    First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
  • 1933
    Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
  • 1942
    World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
  • 1956
    The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
  • 1964
    South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
  • 1968
    Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
  • 1979
    South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
  • 1993
    Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
  • 1994
    Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
  • 2008
    Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

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