About September 13
September 13, 2024 is the 257th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 138 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 13
- 533 –General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
- 1501 –Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
- 1504 –Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
- 1791 –King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
- 1812 –War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 1814 –In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1898 –Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
- 1899 –Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
- 1899 –Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
- 1900 –Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
- 1922 –The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
- 1923 –Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- 1943 –The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
- 1948 –Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
- 1948 –Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
- 1956 –IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
- 1968 –Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
- 1988 –Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- 1993 –Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
- 2007 –The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
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