About September 25
September 25, 2021 is the 268th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 129 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 25
- 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.
- 1775 –Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. At the same time, Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City (Invasion of Canada (1775)).
- 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.
- 1868 –The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
- 1906 –In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
- 1912 –Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
- 1915 –World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 1942 –World War II: Swiss Police Instruction of September 25, 1942 – this instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
- 1944 –World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
- 1955 –The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
- 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.
- 1970 –Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
- 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.
- 2003 –A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
- 2009 –U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
- 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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