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 268th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 12, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,312,640 minutes 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 ‘dihectahexacontaoctagon’ 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 145 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 4,661 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 25 Historical Events
- 1066 –The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
- 1690 –Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
- 1906 –In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
- 1915 –World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
- 1944 –World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
- 1955 –The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
- 1962 –The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
- 1978 –PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
- 1981 –Belize joins the United Nations.
- 2003 –A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
Who were born on September 25?
- 1862 –Léon Boëllmann, French composer (d. 1897)
- 1879 –Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader (d. 1963)
- 1929 –Delia Scala, Italian actress (d. 2004)
- 1947 –Cheryl Tiegs, American model
- 1952 –Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler
- 1965 –Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress
- 1970 –Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
- 1973 –Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
- 1986 –Nicole Fugere, American actress and model
- 1991 –Emmy Clarke, American actress
Who died on September 25?
- 1536 –Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
- 1893 –Louise von François, German writer (b. 1817)
- 1901 –Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
- 1929 –Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
- 1983 –King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
- 1987 –Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
- 1991 –Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
- 1995 –Dave Bowen, Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
- 2003 –Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
- 2009 –Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
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