About September 9
September 9, 2024 is the 253rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 142 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 9
- 1000 –Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 1513 –James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1561 –The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1739 –Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1850 –California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 –The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
- 1922 –The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1923 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 1939 –Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- 1940 –George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1943 –World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1948 –Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1966 –The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969 –Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1970 –A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- 1990 –1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 1993 –The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 2010 –A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1000 ft high.
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