About September 9
September 9, 2024 is the 253rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 142 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 9
- 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.
- 1561 –The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1776 –The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1791 –Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 1839 –John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1855 –Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1886 –The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1926 –The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1956 –Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 –The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1966 –The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969 –In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1970 –A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
- 1972 –In Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- 1990 –1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 2001 –Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- 2001 –Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
- 2010 –A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1000 ft high.
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