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.
- 1692 –Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- 1776 –Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1885 –Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1888 –The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- 1908 –The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
- 1910 –The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1927 –Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1944 –World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
- 1955 –In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1957 –In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
- 1960 –The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 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.
- 1993 –A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1993 –A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
- 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 –Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
- 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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