About September 1
September 1, 2023 is the 244th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 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 162 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 1
- 462 –Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- 1355 –King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
- 1529 –the Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
- 1532 –Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
- 1763 –Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
- 1774 –Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1873 –Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1894 –More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 1897 –The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
- 1906 –The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
- 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.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1939 –The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
- 1969 –A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
- 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.
- 1980 –Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- 1982 –The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
- 2004 –Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
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