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
- 1058 –Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
- 1378 –Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
- 1498 –The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
- 1519 –Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1596 –Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
- 1854 –Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
- 1910 –The ocean liner SS France, later known as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
- 1911 –White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with british warship HMS Hawke.
- 1930 –Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
- 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.
- 1971 –Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
- 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.
- 1990 –South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2000 –The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
- 2001 –In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”.
- 2007 –Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
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