About September 11
September 11, 2025 is the 254th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 159 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 11: More About This Day
It is usually the first day of the year in the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).
What Happened On September 11
- 1609 –Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
- 1649 –Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell’s English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
- 1709 –Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria fight against France.
- 1714 –Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1792 –The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
- 1802 –France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
- 1814 –War of 1812: The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the war.
- 1847 –Stephen Foster’s well-known song, Oh! Susanna, is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1916 –The Quebec Bridge’s central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
- 1922 –One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia’s predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
- 1922 –The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
- 1943 –World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
- 1944 –World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
- 1961 –Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
- 1971 –The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
- 1974 –Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
- 1978 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
- 1980 –Voters approve the present Constitution of Chile.
- 1988 –The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- 1997 –After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
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