About September 14
September 14, 2024 is the 258th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 14
- 786 –“Night of the three Caliphs”: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun’s son al-Ma'mun.
- 1180 –Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
- 1741 –George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
- 1752 –The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: French grenadiers enter Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
- 1901 –President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1923 –Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1939 –World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ship ORP in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
- 1944 –World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
- 1954 –In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- 1960 –The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- 1985 –Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1992 –The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
- 1994 –The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 1999 –Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2001 –Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.
- 2003 –In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2008 –All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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