About September 20

September 20, 2025 is the 263rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 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 150 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On September 20

  • 1187 –
    Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
  • 1848 –
    The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
  • 1857 –
    The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
  • 1860 –
    The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
  • 1871 –
    Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
  • 1893 –
    Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • 1910 –
    The ocean liner SS France, later known as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
  • 1911 –
    White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with british warship HMS Hawke.
  • 1920 –
    Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
  • 1930 –
    Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
  • 1942 –
    Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
  • 1961 –
    Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • 1962 –
    James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
  • 1970 –
    Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
  • 1973 –
    Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
  • 1977 –
    The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
  • 1982 –
    The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
  • 1990 –
    South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
  • 2000 –
    The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
  • 2011 –
    The United States ends its “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

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