About September 9
September 9, 2021 is the 252nd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 145 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 9
- 337 –Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
- 1000 –Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 1379 –Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1543 –Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned “Queen of Scots” in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1850 –California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 –The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
- 1886 –The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1914 –World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1923 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 1924 –Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1940 –George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1944 –World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1945 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1965 –Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- 1965 –The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1969 –Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1970 –A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- 1993 –The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 1999 –The beginning of the Y2K bug and debut of the Dreamcast.
- 2004 –2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
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