About September 4
September 4, 2025 is the 247th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 166 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 4
- 626 –Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty of China.
- 1666 –In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
- 1774 –New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
- 1812 –War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
- 1870 –Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
- 1888 –George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
- 1912 –Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
- 1919 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
- 1944 –World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
- 1944 –World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
- 1948 –Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
- 1949 –The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
- 1956 –The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
- 1957 –The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
- 1964 –Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
- 1975 –The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
- 1977 –The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
- 1996 –War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
- 2010 –Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
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