About September 14
September 14, 2022 is the 257th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 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 130 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 14
- 1682 –Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1752 –The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1829 –The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1846 –Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- 1847 –Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
- 1901 –President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 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.
- 1958 –The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1959 –The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
- 1969 –The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1975 –The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1982 –President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1985 –Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
- 1998 –Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 1999 –Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- 2000 –Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- 2007 –Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
- 2008 –All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
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