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 268^th 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.

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.

September 25 Historical Events

• 1789 –
  The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
• 1846 –
  U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
• 1868 –
  The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
• 1912 –
  Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1996 –
  The last of the Magdalene Asylums closes in Ireland.
• 2003 –
  A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 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?

• 1773 –
  Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
• 1798 –
  Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
• 1898 –
  Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
• 1952 –
  Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
• 1957 –
  Ian Reddington, English actor
• 1968 –
  Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
• 1971 –
  John Lynch, American football player
• 1974 –
  Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 –
  Matías Silvestre, Argentine footballer
• 1990 –
  Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater

Who died on September 25?

• 1396 –
  Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis: Jean de Carrouges (b. circa 1330)
• 1396 –
  Killed at the Battle of Nicopolis: Jean de Vienne, Admiral of France (b. 1341)
• 1617 –
  Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
• 1777 –
  Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
• 1828 –
  Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish musician and poet (b. c. 1783)
• 1918 –
  Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
• 1971 –
  Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
• 1980 –
  Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
• 1987 –
  Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
• 2000 –
  R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)