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 263rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 7, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,758,326,400 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 ‘dihectahexacontatrigon’ 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 150 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 4,656 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 20 Historical Events
- 1519 –Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
- 1596 –Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
- 1962 –James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
- 1973 –Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
- 1979 –A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- 1984 –A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
- 1990 –South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
- 2001 –In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”.
- 2003 –Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
Who were born on September 20?
- 1851 –Henry Arthur Jones, English writer (d. 1929)
- 1878 –Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
- 1885 –Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
- 1947 –Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
- 1949 –Mahesh Bhatt, Indian film director
- 1961 –Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and television personality
- 1971 –Sebastian Roth, German musician
- 1979 –Dan Gillespie Sells, British musician The Feeling
- 1979 –Sean Davis, English footballer
- 1981 –Jordan Tata, American baseball player
Who died on September 20?
- 1815 –Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (b. 1725)
- 1863 –Jacob Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1785)
- 1898 –Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
- 1945 –William Buehler Seabrook, American occultist (b. 1884)
- 1987 –Michael Stewart, American playwright (b. 1924)
- 1996 –Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
- 1999 –Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
- 2004 –Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
- 2005 –Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
- 2010 –Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
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