About September 14

September 14, 2025 is the 257th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 156 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On September 14

  • 1180
    Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
  • 1741
    George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
  • 1812
    Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
  • 1862
    American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
  • 1901
    President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
  • 1917
    Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
  • 1939
    World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ship ORP in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
  • 1944
    World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
  • 1954
    In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
  • 1958
    The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
  • 1959
    The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
  • 1960
    Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
  • 1969
    The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
  • 1979
    Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
  • 1984
    Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 1994
    The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
  • 1995
    Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
  • 1998
    Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
  • 2003
    In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
  • 2008
    All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.

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