About September 20

September 20, 2021 is the 263rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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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 134 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.
  • 1187 –
    Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1848 –
    The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
  • 1854 –
    Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.
  • 1871 –
    Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
  • 1881 –
    Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
  • 1893 –
    Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • 1909 –
    The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
  • 1910 –
    The ocean liner SS France, later known as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
  • 1920 –
    Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
  • 1961 –
    Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
  • 1962 –
    James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
  • 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.
  • 2002 –
    The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
  • 2003 –
    Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
  • 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.
  • 2011 –
    The United States ends its “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

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