About September 8
September 8, 2025 is the 251st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo 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 162 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 8
- 70 –Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
- 1504 –Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
- 1551 –The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
- 1565 –The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18.
- 1810 –The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor’s newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor’s men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- 1914 –World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1930 –3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- 1934 –Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
- 1935 –US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
- 1943 –World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
- 1951 –Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
- 1960 –In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
- 1962 –Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
- 1962 –Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- 1966 –The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1971 –In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- 1988 –Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
- 1994 –USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
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