What are the important events that happened on September 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 8: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 8 is the 251^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 26, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,136 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 ‘dihectapentacontahenagon’ day.

Virgo 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 162 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 4,644 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 8 Historical Events

• 1831 –
  William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1930 –
  3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
• 1945 –
  Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
• 1951 –
  Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
• 1954 –
  The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• 1959 –
  The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
• 1960 –
  In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• 1991 –
  The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• 2005 –
  Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.

Who were born on September 8?

• 801 –
  Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865)
• 828 –
  Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
• 1698 –
  François Francoeur, French composer and violinist (d. 1787)
• 1929 –
  Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1955 –
  Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist
• 1958 –
  Michael Lardie, American musician
• 1964 –
  Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000)
• 1965 –
  Darlene Zschech, Australian Christian Singer
• 1973 –
  Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1984 –
  Bobby Parnell, American baseball player

Who died on September 8?

• 701 –
  Pope Sergius I
• 1682 –
  Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
• 1721 –
  Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
• 1761 –
  Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
• 1944 –
  Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b.1881)
• 1981 –
  Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1991 –
  Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
• 2004 –
  Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
• 2006 –
  Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
• 2007 –
  Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)