About September 8
September 8, 2023 is the 251st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 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 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 8
- 70 –Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.
- 1331 –Stephen Uroš IV Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
- 1565 –The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18.
- 1727 –A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
- 1755 –French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- 1796 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano – French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
- 1831 –William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
- 1888 –In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- 1914 –World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1921 –16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- 1923 –Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- 1935 –US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
- 1941 –World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
- 1944 –World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
- 1954 –The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- 1975 –Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “I Am A Homosexual”. He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
- 1991 –The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
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