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

  • 509 BC
    The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome’s Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
  • 122
    Construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins.
  • 1541
    After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
  • 1609
    Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
  • 1759
    Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
  • 1791
    King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
  • 1812
    War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
  • 1814
    In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
  • 1882
    The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
  • 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.
  • 1922
    The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C.
  • 1935
    Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
  • 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
    IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
  • 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.
  • 1993
    Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
  • 1994
    Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
  • 2007
    The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
  • 2008
    Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

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