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
- 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.
- 1772 –The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
- 1774 –Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
- 1859 –Solar Superstorm
- 1873 –Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 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.
- 1897 –The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
- 1902 –A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- 1910 –Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- 1928 –Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 1939 –World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning World War II.
- 1958 –Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
- 1961 –The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
- 1970 –Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
- 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
- 2004 –Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
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