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
- 122 –Construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins.
- 1213 –End of Battle of Muret, during the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy.
- 1501 –Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
- 1584 –San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1609 –Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
- 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.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful “grand assault” during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
- 1788 –The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country’s temporary capital.
- 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.
- 1848 –Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
- 1914 –World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- 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.
- 1935 –Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario).
- 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.
- 1956 –IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
- 1968 –Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
- 1971 –State police and National Guardsmen storm New York’s Attica Prison to end a prison revolt.
- 1979 –South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- 1994 –Ulysses probe passes the Sun’s south pole.
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