About September 1
September 1, 2024 is the 245th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Virgo is the sun 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 150 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 1
- 462 –Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- 1529 –the Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
- 1644 –Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
- 1715 –King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
- 1763 –Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
- 1836 –Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1878 –Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
- 1902 –A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- 1905 –Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- 1910 –Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- 1934 –SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1939 –George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- 1958 –Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
- 1969 –Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
- 1974 –The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
- 1981 –A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
- 1990 –The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
- 1991 –Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
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