About September 9
September 9, 2023 is the 252nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 154 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.
- 1379 –Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1791 –Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 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.
- 1922 –The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1923 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
- 1924 –Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1939 –World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1943 –World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1945 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1948 –Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1966 –The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969 –Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1969 –In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1990 –1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 1991 –Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 –The beginning of the Y2K bug and debut of the Dreamcast.
- 2001 –At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
- 2009 –At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
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