About September 10
September 10, 2025 is the 253rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 160 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 10
- 1419 –John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509 –An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
- 1515 –Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1561 –Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1608 –John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1858 –George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1918 –Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1932 –The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1937 –Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1946 –While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 1960 –At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1961 –Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
- 1974 –Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1977 –Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- 1990 –The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 2001 –Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 2002 –Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- 2007 –Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2008 –The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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