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
- 1504 –Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
- 1755 –French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
- 1761 –Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- 1860 –The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
- 1888 –In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- 1888 –In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- 1900 –Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- 1921 –16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- 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.
- 1962 –Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
- 1965 –Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
- 1966 –The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1966 –The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
- 1967 –The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
- 1971 –In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.
- 1975 –Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “I Am A Homosexual”. He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
- 1994 –USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
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