What are the important events that happened on September 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 1 is the 244th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 19, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,278,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontatetragon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac 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 169 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,637 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 1 Historical Events
- 462 –Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- 1873 –Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1894 –More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 1914 –St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1939 –Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
- 1970 –Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
- 1972 –In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
- 1980 –Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- 1985 –A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
Who were born on September 1?
- 1453 –Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
- 1895 –Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955)
- 1902 –Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Polish psychiatrist, psychologist (d. 1980)
- 1923 –Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
- 1926 –Gene Colan, American comic book artist (d.2011)
- 1954 –Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 –Philece Sampler, American voice artist
- 1957 –Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer
- 1977 –Aaron Schobel, American football player
- 1978 –Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American-born al-Qaeda operative
Who died on September 1?
- 1256 –Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
- 1581 –Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
- 1687 –Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
- 1838 –William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
- 1953 –Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
- 1967 –Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
- 1985 –Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
- 1998 –Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
- 2001 –Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
- 2006 –György Faludy, Hungarian-Jewish author and translator (b. 1910)
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