What are the important events that happened on September 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 14 is the 257^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 1, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,280 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 ‘dihectapentacontaheptagon’ 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 156 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 4,650 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 14 Historical Events

• 786 –
  “Night of the three Caliphs”: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun’s son al-Ma'mun.
• 1814 –
  The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
• 1846 –
  Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
• 1939 –
  World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ship ORP in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
• 1958 –
  The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
• 1959 –
  The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
• 1982 –
  President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
• 1987 –
  The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
• 2007 –
  Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
• 2008 –
  All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.

Who were born on September 14?

• 1580 –
  Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
• 1878 –
  Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
• 1880 –
  Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
• 1909 –
  Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
• 1913 –
  Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress (d. 2011)
• 1922 –
  Michel Auclair, French actor (d. 1988)
• 1934 –
  Kate Millett, American feminist writer
• 1935 –
  Amanda Barrie, British actress
• 1936 –
  Terence Donovan, British photographer and film director (d. 1996)
• 1960 –
  Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor

Who died on September 14?

• 258 –
  Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
• 585 –
  Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
• 891 –
  Pope Stephen V
• 1321 –
  Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)
• 1743 –
  Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
• 1936 –
  Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1966 –
  Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1975 –
  Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
• 1992 –
  Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
• 2009 –
  Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)