About September 22
September 22, 2025 is the 265th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 148 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 22: More About This Day
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
What Happened On September 22
- 1236 –The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1586 –Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
- 1692 –Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- 1776 –Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1784 –Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 1789 –Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1792 –Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1823 –Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
- 1851 –The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1869 –Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
- 1910 –The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1939 –Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
- 1955 –In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1960 –The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1975 –Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- 1979 –The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980 –Iraq invades Iran.
- 1991 –The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 1994 –the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.
- 1995 –An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
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