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.
- 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.
- 1644 –Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
- 1774 –Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
- 1804 –Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
- 1836 –Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
- 1873 –Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1906 –The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
- 1914 –The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1923 –The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1939 –Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
- 1939 –World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning World War II.
- 1951 –The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- 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.
- 1981 –A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
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