About September 9
September 9, 2025 is the 252nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 161 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 9
- 1513 –James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1543 –Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1561 –The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1839 –John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1886 –The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1922 –The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1923 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 1924 –Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1939 –Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1940 –George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1944 –World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1945 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1948 –Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1969 –In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1970 –A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- 1972 –In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- 1990 –1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 2009 –At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
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