About September 11
September 11, 2024 is the 255th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 140 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
- 506 –The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1526 –The Ottoman army occupies Buda after the crushing Hungarian defeat in the Battle of Mohács.
- 1683 –Battle of Vienna.
- 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.
- 1919 –U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
- 1922 –The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
- 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.
- 1941 –Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
- 1943 –World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
- 1954 –Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
- 1961 –Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
- 1973 –A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
- 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.
- 1988 –The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- 1989 –Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps, were free to leave for West Germany.
- 1997 –14 Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea
- 1998 –Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
- 2000 –Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.
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