About September 7
September 7, 2025 is the 250th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 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 163 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 7
- 70 –A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
- 1228 –Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1776 –According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino – Napoleon wins a Pyrrhic victory over the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
- 1895 –The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
- 1901 –The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- 1906 –Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
- 1916 –Federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
- 1927 –The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
- 1929 –Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
- 1942 –Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
- 1945 –Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
- 1953 –Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
- 1965 –China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August’s Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
- 1970 –Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
- 1979 –The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
- 1979 –The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
- 1986 –Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
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