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
- 66 –Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
- 1236 –The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1789 –Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1789 –The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1851 –The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1866 –Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1869 –Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
- 1896 –Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1927 –Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 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.
- 1965 –The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
- 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.
- 1991 –The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 1993 –A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 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.
- 2003 –David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
- 2011 –CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
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