Monday September 2, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

September 2: Day of the Week

September 2, 2024 is the 246th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

September 2 Historical Event(s)

44 BC
Cicero launches the first of his Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months.
1649
The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1752
Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1792
During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1833
Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1867
Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shōken.
1945
Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1957
President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
1970
NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1998
The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

Who were born on September 2?

1878
Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1934
Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982)
1943
Joe Simon, American singer
1962
Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator
1966
Tuc Watkins, American actor
1968
Cynthia Watros, American actress
1974
Inari Vachs, American adult film actress
1979
Brian Westbrook, American football player
1983
Mark Foster, English rugby player
1987
Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer

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