About September 14
September 14, 2024 is the 258th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 14
- 1682 –Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1741 –George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
- 1808 –Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1829 –The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
- 1901 –President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
- 1969 –The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1975 –The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1979 –Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
- 1982 –President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1984 –Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1985 –Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1987 –The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 1995 –Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
- 1998 –Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 2001 –Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.
- 2007 –Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- 2008 –All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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