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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
- 1917 –Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
- 1923 –Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 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.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
- 1969 –The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1985 –Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1992 –The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 2000 –Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- 2001 –Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.
- 2003 –In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2007 –Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- 2008 –All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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