About September 13
September 13, 2024 is the 257th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 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 138 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 13
- 585 BC –Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
- 122 –Construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins.
- 335 –Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
- 533 –General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
- 1584 –San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1743 –Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
- 1759 –Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
- 1791 –King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
- 1898 –Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
- 1914 –World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 1922 –The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
- 1922 –The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya reaches a world record 57.8 °C.
- 1923 –Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- 1942 –World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
- 1979 –South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- 1989 –Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- 2001 –Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 2007 –The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 2008 –Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
- 2008 –Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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