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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 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 7, 2021 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,201,600 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 ‘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 134 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 3,195 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 20 Historical Events
- 1187 –Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1792 –French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
- 1893 –Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- 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.
- 2007 –Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
Who were born on September 20?
- 1935 –David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1935 –Keith Roberts, British science fiction author (d. 2000)
- 1957 –Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor
- 1969 –Tim Rogers, Australian musician
- 1976 –Yui Horie, Japanese seiyuu
Who died on September 20?
- 1884 –Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b. 1802)
- 1908 –Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1971 –Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1998 –Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
- 2005 –Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
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