About September 11
September 11, 2020 is the 255th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 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 154 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 11: More About This Day
It is usually the first day of the year in the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099).
What Happened On September 11
- 1390 –Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
- 1526 –The Ottoman army occupies Buda after the crushing Hungarian defeat in the Battle of Mohács.
- 1541 –Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonko.
- 1683 –Battle of Vienna.
- 1697 –Battle of Zenta.
- 1714 –Siege of Barcelona: Barcelona, capital city of Catalonia, surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies in the War of the Spanish Succession.
- 1789 –Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- 1829 –Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico, This was the final consummation of Mexican independence.
- 1857 –The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
- 1914 –Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
- 1919 –U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
- 1940 –George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1941 –Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
- 1943 –World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
- 1971 –The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
- 1972 –The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
- 1978 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
- 1989 –Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps, were free to leave for West Germany.
- 1997 –NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- 2007 –Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
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