About September 14
September 14, 2025 is the 257th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 156 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 14
- 81 –Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 1180 –Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
- 1741 –George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
- 1808 –Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1814 –The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
- 1846 –Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- 1901 –President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1917 –Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
- 1923 –Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1939 –World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ship ORP in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
- 1944 –World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
- 1954 –In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- 1969 –The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1984 –Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1987 –The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 1992 –The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1994 –The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 2000 –Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- 2008 –All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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