What are the important events that happened on September 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 20: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 20 is the 264th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 7, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,726,790,400 seconds 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 ‘dihectahexacontatetragon’ 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 131 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 4,291 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 20 Historical Events
- 1187 –Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1737 –The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
- 1835 –Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
- 1910 –The ocean liner SS France, later known as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
- 1942 –Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
- 1967 –RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. It is operated by the Cunard Line.
- 1979 –A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- 1982 –The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
- 1984 –A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- 2002 –The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.
Who were born on September 20?
- 524 –Kan B'alam I, ruler of Maya state of Palenque (d. 583)
- 1758 –Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti (d. 1806)
- 1851 –Henry Arthur Jones, English writer (d. 1929)
- 1885 –Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
- 1917 –Red Auerbach, American basketball coach (d. 2006)
- 1925 –Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
- 1957 –Rich DiSilvio, American new media developer & artist
- 1977 –Namie Amuro, Japanese pop singer
- 1981 –Joanie Dodds, American model
- 1982 –Aaron Burkart, German rally driver
Who died on September 20?
- 1586 –Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (b. 1558)
- 1639 –Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)
- 1927 –George Nichols, American actor and film director (b. 1864)
- 1932 –Wovoka, American Northern Paiute religious leader (b. 1856)
- 1946 –Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
- 1947 –Fiorello La Guardia, American politician (b. 1882)
- 1957 –Heino Kaski, Finnish composer (b. 1885)
- 1973 –Jim Croce, American singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1975 –Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1998 –Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
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