What are the important events that happened on September 8? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 8: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 8 is the 252nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 26, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,762,560 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 ‘dihectapentacontadigon’ 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 143 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 4,279 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 8 Historical Events
- 1504 –Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
- 1900 –Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- 1914 –World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1921 –16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- 1923 –Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- 1954 –The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- 1966 –The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1991 –The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
- 2005 –Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
Who were born on September 8?
- 1884 –Théodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921)
- 1887 –George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972)
- 1903 –Jane Arbor, British writer (d. 1994)
- 1922 –Lyndon LaRouche, American politician
- 1927 –Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1933 –Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss
- 1941 –Bernie Sanders, American politician
- 1977 –Nate Corddry, American actor
- 1984 –Tiago Treichel, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 –Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver
Who died on September 8?
- 701 –Pope Sergius I
- 1100 –Antipope Clement III (b. c.1029)
- 1761 –Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
- 1894 –Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
- 1933 –King Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
- 1949 –Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
- 1954 –André Derain, French artist, sculptor (b. 1880)
- 1985 –John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
- 2006 –Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
- 2009 –Ray Barrett, Australian film and television actor (b. 1927)
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