About September 7
September 7, 2025 is the 250th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 115 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 163 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 7
- 1652 –Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino – Napoleon wins a Pyrrhic victory over the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
- 1818 –Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
- 1876 –In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
- 1893 –The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
- 1921 –In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
- 1922 –In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
- 1940 –World War II: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
- 1942 –Holocaust: 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
- 1943 –A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
- 1943 –World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
- 1953 –Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
- 1965 –China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
- 1978 –While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
- 1979 –The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
- 1986 –Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
- 2008 –The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
- 2010 –A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.
- 2011 –A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
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