About September 25
September 25, 2024 is the 269th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 126 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.
- 303 –On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
- 1066 –The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
- 1513 –Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
- 1555 –The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
- 1690 –Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- 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.
- 1929 –Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
- 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.
- 1957 –Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
- 1977 –About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
- 1981 –Belize joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1992 –NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
- 1996 –The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
- 2003 –A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 2008 –China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
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