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

  • 1509
    An earthquake known as “The Lesser Judgment Day” hits Istanbul.
  • 1515
    Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
  • 1608
    John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
  • 1798
    At the Battle of St. George’s Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
  • 1813
    The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
  • 1823
    Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
  • 1898
    Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
  • 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.
  • 1943
    World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
  • 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.
  • 1967
    The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
  • 1972
    The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
  • 1976
    A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
  • 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
    Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
  • 2003
    Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
  • 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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