About September 8
September 8, 2024 is the 252nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 143 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
- 1514 –Battle of Orsha – in one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
- 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.
- 1756 –French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
- 1860 –The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.
- 1888 –In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- 1892 –The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- 1923 –Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- 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: Menton is liberated from Germany.
- 1945 –Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
- 1951 –Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
- 1952 –The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
- 1966 –The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
- 1971 –In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.
- 2004 –NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
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