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.
- 1513 –James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland’s involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1561 –The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1739 –Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 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.
- 1855 –Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1886 –The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 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 –Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain’s colonial government.
- 1942 –World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- 1943 –World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1948 –Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
- 1969 –In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1971 –The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1991 –Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1999 –The beginning of the Y2K bug and debut of the Dreamcast.
- 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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