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 245th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 19, 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, 28,752,480 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 ‘dihectatetracontapentagon’ 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 150 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 4,272 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 1 Historical Events
- 1355 –King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
- 1715 –King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
- 1836 –Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- 1859 –Solar Superstorm
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1910 –Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- 1914 –The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1981 –A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
- 1985 –A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
Who were born on September 1?
- 1711 –William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
- 1878 –Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
- 1892 –Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
- 1926 –Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
- 1937 –Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1938 –Per Kirkeby, Danish artist
- 1944 –Archie Bell, singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
- 1964 –Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
- 1971 –Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
- 1988 –Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
Who died on September 1?
- 1678 –Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1601)
- 1687 –Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
- 1715 –François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
- 1943 –Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
- 1967 –Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
- 1999 –W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
- 2005 –Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
- 2006 –Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
- 2006 –Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
- 2010 –Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
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