About September 1
September 1, 2024 is the 245th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 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 150 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 1
- 1532 –Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
- 1604 –Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
- 1763 –Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
- 1772 –The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
- 1774 –Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1878 –Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
- 1894 –More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 1902 –A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- 1911 –The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- 1920 –The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
- 1928 –Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 1958 –Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
- 1972 –In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
- 1974 –The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
- 1979 –The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21000 km.
- 1980 –Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- 1980 –Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- 1983 –Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
- 1991 –Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
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