About September 14
September 14, 2024 is the 258th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 14
- 81 –Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 786 –“Night of the three Caliphs”: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun’s son al-Ma'mun.
- 1607 –Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
- 1741 –George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
- 1752 –The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1808 –Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
- 1846 –Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
- 1923 –Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1954 –In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- 1960 –The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- 1969 –The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1975 –The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1982 –President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1992 –The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1998 –Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 2001 –Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.
- 2008 –All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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