About September 13
September 13, 2024 is the 257th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 109 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 138 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 13
- 585 BC –Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
- 1229 –Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
- 1504 –Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
- 1743 –Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
- 1759 –Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
- 1814 –In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee’s battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
- 1900 –Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
- 1922 –The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
- 1933 –Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- 1942 –World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
- 1948 –Deputy Primer Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to move into the Hyderabad to integrate it with Indian Union.
- 1956 –The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
- 1964 –South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
- 1971 –People’s Republic of China: Chairman Mao Zedong’s second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via plane after the failure of alleged coup against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
- 1979 –South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- 1989 –Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- 1993 –Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
- 1994 –Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
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