About September 20
September 20, 2024 is the 264th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 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 131 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 20
- 1058 –Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
- 1260 –the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.
- 1498 –The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
- 1697 –The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years’ War (1688–97).
- 1835 –Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
- 1854 –Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
- 1857 –The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
- 1860 –The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
- 1870 –Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy.
- 1909 –The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
- 1920 –Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
- 1930 –Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
- 1961 –Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1967 –RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- 1970 –Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
- 1973 –Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
- 1979 –A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- 1982 –The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
- 2008 –A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
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