About September 25
September 25, 2022 is the 268th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 119 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.
- 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.
- 1804 –The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
- 1846 –U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
- 1911 –Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1915 –World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 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.
- 1957 –Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
- 1959 –Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
- 1972 –In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
- 1977 –About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 –A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
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