What are the important events that happened on September 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 14 is the 258th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 1, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,771,200 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 ‘dihectapentacontaoctagon’ 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 137 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 4,285 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 14 Historical Events
- 81 –Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 1741 –George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
- 1752 –The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1901 –President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1923 –Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.
- 1969 –The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery Date.
- 1998 –Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
- 2000 –Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- 2003 –In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
- 2007 –Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
Who were born on September 14?
- 1543 –Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
- 1580 –Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
- 1721 –Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
- 1880 –Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
- 1914 –Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
- 1936 –Walter Koenig, American actor
- 1940 –Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach
- 1956 –Lefteris Zagoritis, Greek politician
- 1963 –Tony Becker, American actor
- 1987 –Michael Crabtree, American football player
Who died on September 14?
- 891 –Pope Stephen V
- 1605 –Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Kraków (b. 1550)
- 1712 –Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)
- 1879 –Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
- 1898 –William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (b. 1857)
- 1942 –E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
- 1974 –Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1992 –Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
- 2001 –Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
- 2008 –Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)
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