About September 8
September 8, 2024 is the 252nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 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 143 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 8
- 70 –Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
- 1264 –The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
- 1551 –The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- 1796 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano – French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
- 1888 –In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- 1900 –Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- 1921 –16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- 1923 –Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- 1934 –Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
- 1943 –World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
- 1944 –World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
- 1954 –The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- 1959 –The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- 1962 –Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
- 1962 –Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- 1965 –Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- 1994 –USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
- 2004 –NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
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