What are the important events that happened on September 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 1 is the 244th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 19, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 487,968 hours 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 ‘dihectatetracontatetragon’ 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 169 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 4,637 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 1 Historical Events
- 1859 –Solar Superstorm
- 1862 –American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1914 –St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1939 –Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
- 1972 –In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
- 1974 –The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
- 1980 –Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- 1985 –A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
Who were born on September 1?
- 1789 –Ferencz Gyulai Hungarian nobleman (d. 1868)
- 1888 –Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
- 1913 –Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
- 1945 –Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
- 1957 –Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer
- 1959 –Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
- 1960 –Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
- 1971 –Jimmy Reiher, Jr., American professional wrestler
- 1977 –Arsalan Iftikhar, American attorney and Muslim advocate
- 1982 –Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
Who died on September 1?
- 1581 –Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
- 1839 –Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian (b. 1786)
- 1868 –Ferencz Gyulai, Hungarian nobleman (b. 1798)
- 1930 –Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician (b. 1878)
- 1970 –François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
- 1986 –Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1988 –Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 1989 –A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
- 2006 –Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
- 2008 –Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
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