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.
- 1556 –Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip’s Bay during the New York Campaign.
- 1816 –HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
- 1830 –The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
- 1831 –The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1894 –First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- 1935 –Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1935 –The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1940 –World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
- 1950 –Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
- 1952 –United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1962 –The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963 –The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- 1966 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- 1968 –The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
- 1974 –Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
- 1975 –The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- 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.
- 2008 –Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
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