About September 14
September 14, 2021 is the 257th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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.
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).
- 1808 –Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1846 –Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
- 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.
- 1958 –The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1960 –Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
- 1960 –The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- 1975 –The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1979 –Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
- 1982 –President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
- 1984 –Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1987 –The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 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.
- 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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