At A Glance

25 September 2023 at a glance

Day of the week
25 September 2023 was a Monday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat.
Top Film of 2023
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
Star sign
The star sign for 25 September is Libra.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 25 September 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 25 September 2023 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 25 September

  • 1981 Belize joins the United Nations.
  • 1987 Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
  • 1992 NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
  • 1997 NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
  • 2003 The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

Famous people born on 25 September

  • Bella Ramsey, English actor (born 2003)
  • Michael Douglas, American actor and producer (born 1944)
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress (born 1969)
  • Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper (born 1968)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
  • 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
  • 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.

Life in 2023

Prime Minister

Rishi Sunak

Monarch

Charles III

Pint of Beer

£4.80

Loaf of Bread

£1.95

Average House

£291,228

Weekly Wage

£1,035.00

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