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, 28,779,840 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 ‘dihectahexacontatetragon’ day.
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
- 1498 –The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
- 1857 –The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
- 1860 –The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.
- 1962 –James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
- 1971 –Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
- 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.
- 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”.
Who were born on September 20?
- 1599 –Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
- 1873 –Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
- 1949 –Mahesh Bhatt, Indian film director
- 1964 –Randy Bradbury, American musician (Pennywise)
- 1966 –Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese rock musician
- 1971 –Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
- 1976 –Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
- 1978 –Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer
- 1980 –Mariacarla Boscono, Italian fashion model
- 1982 –Brian Fortuna, American dancer
Who died on September 20?
- 1460 –Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (b. 1400)
- 1630 –Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
- 1803 –Robert Emmet, Irish patriot (b. 1780)
- 1852 –Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)
- 1898 –Theodor Fontane, German writer (b. 1819)
- 1996 –Paul Weston, American arranger and conductor (b. 1912)
- 1999 –Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
- 2000 –Gherman Titov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1935)
- 2003 –Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (b. 1928)
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