About September 13

September 13, 2025 is the 256th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 157 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On September 13

  • 585 BC
    Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
  • 1501
    Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
  • 1584
    San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
  • 1609
    Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
  • 1808
    Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
  • 1814
    In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1847
    Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
  • 1848
    Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
  • 1850
    First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
  • 1900
    Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
  • 1914
    World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
  • 1914
    World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
  • 1923
    Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
  • 1942
    World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
  • 1956
    The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
  • 1964
    South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
  • 1971
    People’s Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong’s second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
  • 1987
    Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
  • 1989
    Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
  • 1994
    Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.

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