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, 29,278,080 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 ‘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
- 1529 –the Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
- 1532 –Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
- 1859 –Solar Superstorm
- 1873 –Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1894 –More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 1934 –SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- 1969 –A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
- 1980 –Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- 1991 –Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
- 2004 –Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
Who were born on September 1?
- 1818 –José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
- 1877 –Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
- 1926 –Gene Colan, American comic book artist (d.2011)
- 1937 –Al Geiberger, American golfer
- 1951 –David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
- 1965 –Ľudovít Kaník, Slovak politician
- 1971 –Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
- 1971 –Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
- 1983 –Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 –Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on September 1?
- 1126 –Prince Álmos, Hungarian prince
- 1414 –William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
- 1818 –Robert Calder, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1745)
- 1953 –Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
- 1967 –Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
- 1969 –Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
- 1983 –Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
- 1983 –Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
- 1989 –A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
- 2006 –György Faludy, Hungarian-Jewish author and translator (b. 1910)
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