What are the important events that happened on September 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 14 is the 258th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 1, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,771,200 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 ‘dihectapentacontaoctagon’ 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 137 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 4,285 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 14 Historical Events
- 81 –Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 1180 –Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
- 1682 –Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1808 –Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1829 –The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1954 –In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout.
- 1958 –The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
- 1975 –The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1994 –The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 1998 –Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
Who were born on September 14?
- 1880 –Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
- 1914 –Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
- 1932 –Harry Sinden, American National Hockey League executive
- 1936 –Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1936 –Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
- 1937 –Renzo Piano, Italian architect
- 1941 –Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
- 1949 –Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
- 1961 –Wendy Thomas, namesake of the eponymous restaurant (Wendy’s)
- 1985 –Paolo Gregoletto, American bassist (Trivium)
Who died on September 14?
- 891 –Pope Stephen V
- 1605 –Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Kraków (b. 1550)
- 1743 –Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
- 1936 –Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)
- 1937 –Tomáš Masaryk, Czech politician (b. 1850)
- 1974 –Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1982 –Grace Kelly, American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
- 1982 –John Gardner, American novelist (b. 1933)
- 2001 –Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (b. 1931)
- 2009 –Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)
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