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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