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
- 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.
- 1644 –Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
- 1715 –King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
- 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.
- 1836 –Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- 1859 –Solar Superstorm
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 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.
- 1894 –More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 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.
- 1914 –The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 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.
- 1951 –The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- 1969 –A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
- 1980 –Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- 2004 –Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
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