About September 20
September 20, 2024 is the 264th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 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 131 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 20
- 1519 –Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1737 –The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
- 1792 –French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
- 1835 –Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
- 1848 –The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
- 1854 –Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
- 1857 –The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
- 1911 –White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with british warship HMS Hawke.
- 1920 –Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
- 1930 –Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
- 1942 –Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
- 1961 –Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1967 –RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- 1970 –Syrian tanks roll into Jordan in response to continued fighting between Jordan and the fedayeen.
- 1973 –Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
- 1977 –The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
- 1979 –A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- 1982 –The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
- 2000 –The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
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