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, 29,296,800 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 ‘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.
• 1741 –
  George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
• 1752 –
  The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
• 1829 –
  The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
• 1954 –
  In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
• 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.
• 1992 –
  The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
• 1994 –
  The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
• 2007 –
  Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

Who were born on September 14?

• 1388 –
  Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer (d. 15th c.)
• 1580 –
  Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
• 1902 –
  Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
• 1914 –
  Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
• 1919 –
  Deryck Cooke, British musicologist (d. 1976)
• 1921 –
  A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian businessman and chief executive officer (Bell Canada)
• 1927 –
  Jim Fanning, American baseball player and manager
• 1942 –
  Oliver Lake, American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet
• 1956 –
  Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
• 1962 –
  Tom Kurvers, American ice hockey player

Who died on September 14?

• 1936 –
  Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1951 –
  Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
• 1959 –
  Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1974 –
  Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 –
  Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
• 1981 –
  Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (b. 1899)
• 1982 –
  Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
• 2007 –
  Jacques Martin, French television host and producer (b. 1933)
• 2009 –
  Henry Gibson, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2009 –
  Keith Floyd, British TV chef (b. 1943)