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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