About September 9
September 9, 2025 is the 252nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 161 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 9
- 9 –Arminius’ alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
- 1493 –Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1543 –Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1922 –The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1939 –Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- 1942 –World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- 1945 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1947 –First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948 –Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 –Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- 1969 –Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1972 –In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- 1990 –1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 1993 –The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 2001 –At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
- 2001 –Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
- 2004 –2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2009 –At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
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