About September 25
September 25, 2023 is the 268th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Libra 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 138 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 25
- 275 –In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.
- 1066 –The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
- 1396 –Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
- 1513 –Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
- 1690 –Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- 1789 –The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
- 1846 –U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
- 1890 –The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
- 1912 –Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
- 1942 –World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
- 1956 –TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
- 1959 –Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
- 1978 –PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
- 1981 –Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
- 1983 –Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
- 1996 –The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
- 2002 –The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
- 2003 –A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 2008 –China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
- 2010 –Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations General Assembly to request that Israel end its policy of building settlements in the West Bank.
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