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.
- 1561 –The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1739 –Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1839 –John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 –The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
- 1855 –Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1924 –Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1926 –The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1943 –World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1945 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1965 –The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1966 –The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 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.
- 2001 –Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
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