Wikipedia defines history as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. It came from the Greek word ‘historia’ – which means ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation’.
Did you know? There are many who claim Herodotus, a fifth century BC Greek historian, as the “father of history”.
This website utilizes pages from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are 105,062 records in the database that include events, births and deaths of popular individuals. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.
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What are the important events that happened on September 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 25 is the 269th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 12, 2016 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 409,656 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontaenneagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac 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 125 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,374 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 25 Historical Events
- 1911 –Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1981 –Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the 102nd person sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
- 1992 –NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
- 2008 –China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
- 2009 –U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
Who were born on September 25?
- 1711 –Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
- 1943 –Robert Walden, American actor
- 1952 –Cherríe Moraga, American writer
- 1965 –Anne Roumanoff, French humorist
- 1974 –Daniel Kessler, American musician
Who died on September 25?
- 1534 –Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
- 1926 –Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
- 1995 –Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
- 2005 –Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
- 2006 –John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
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