About September 22
September 22, 2025 is the 265th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 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 148 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 22: More About This Day
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
What Happened On September 22
- 1236 –The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1499 –Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
- 1598 –English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1784 –Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 1789 –Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1792 –Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1851 –The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1862 –Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1866 –Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1910 –The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1934 –An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- 1941 –World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 1960 –The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1965 –The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
- 1975 –Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- 1979 –The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1993 –A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1993 –A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
- 1994 –the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.
- 1995 –Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
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