About September 8
September 8, 2025 is the 251st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 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 162 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 8
- 1264 –The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
- 1504 –Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
- 1514 –Battle of Orsha – in one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- 1860 –The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- 1914 –World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1930 –3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- 1934 –Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
- 1941 –World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
- 1943 –World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
- 1943 –World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
- 1944 –World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
- 1951 –Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
- 1959 –The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- 1962 –Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- 1965 –Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- 1991 –The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
- 2005 –Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
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