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.
- 1761 –George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776 –Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1784 –Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 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.
- 1885 –Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1908 –The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
- 1919 –The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
- 1927 –Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1941 –World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2011 –CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
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