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September Arrives, Marking The Start Of Fall Season

InkFreeNews.com Posted Sep 01, 2025  Updated: Aug 31, 2025 @ 8:33 PM

The Northern Cardinal is the state bird of Indiana. Northern cardinals breed between March and September. They are not migratory birds and usually live within miles of where they were raised. InkFreeNews photo by Lasca Randels

By Lasca Randels
InkFreeNews

WARSAW — September marks the start of the fall season. The autumn equinox arrives on Monday, September 22. Read on for some trivia associated with this month as well as a list of September holidays and events taking place.

Sapphire is September’s birthstone. Aster or Morning Glory are the birth flowers.

September’s zodiac signs are Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) and Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22). 


HOLIDAYS:

  • Sept.1 — Labor Day
  • Sept. 11 — Patriot Day, in remembrance of those who were injured or killed in the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001
  • Sept. 7 — Grandparents Day
  • Sept. 17 — Constitution Day
  • Sept. 21 — International Day of Peace

 

THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: 

  • Sept. 13, 1814 — The Battle of Fort Henry in Baltimore Harbor occurred, observed by Francis Scott Key aboard a ship. He watched the British attack overnight and at dawn saw the American flag still flying over the fort, inspiring him to write the verses which were later coupled with the tune of a popular drinking song and became the U.S. National Anthem in 1931.
  • Sept. 26, 1918 — The last major battle of World War I, the Battle of the Argonne, began as a combined force of French and Americans attacked the Germans along a 40-mile front.
  • Sept. 30, 1938 — British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to England declaring there would be “peace in our time,” after signing the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler. The Pact ceded the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland to the Nazis. Chamberlain claimed the agreement meant peace, however, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939.
  • Sept. 19-20, 1985 — Earthquakes in Mexico City killed an estimated 5,000 to 20,000 persons and left more than 100,000 homeless, causing $4 billion in damage. The quakes registered 8.1 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.
  • Sept. 11, 2001 —  The worst terrorist attack in U.S. history occurred as four large passenger jets were hijacked then crashed, killing nearly 3,000 persons. Four separate teams of Mideast terrorists, operating from inside the U.S., boarded the morning flights posing as passengers, then forcibly took over control of the aircraft. Two fully-fueled jumbo jets, American Airlines Flight 11 carrying 92 people and United Airlines Flight 175 carrying 65 people, had departed Boston for Los Angeles. Both jets were diverted by the hijackers to New York City where they were deliberately crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The impact and subsequent fire caused both 110-story towers to collapse, killing 2,752 persons including hundreds of rescue workers and people employed in the towers. In addition, United Airlines Flight 93, which had departed Newark for San Francisco, and American Airlines Flight 77, which had departed Dulles (Virginia) for Los Angeles, were hijacked. Flight 77 with 64 people on board was diverted to Washington, D.C., then piloted into the Pentagon building, killing everyone on board and 125 military personnel inside the building. Flight 93 with 44 people on board was also diverted toward Washington but crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to overpower the terrorists on board.

 

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