About September 15
September 15, 2025 is the 258th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 15
- 994 –Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
- 1440 –Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
- 1762 –Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- 1812 –War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 1816 –HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
- 1831 –The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1835 –HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
- 1851 –Saint Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1916 –World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
- 1935 –Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1935 –The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1942 –World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- 1944 –Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
- 1950 –Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
- 1952 –United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1972 –A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1981 –The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
- 1981 –The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1981 –Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1983 –Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
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