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September 20: Day Of The Week

September 20, 2013 is the 263^rd day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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.

September 20 Historical Events

• 1737 –
  The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
• 1792 –
  French troops stop allied invasion of France, during the War of the First Coalition at Valmy.
• 1835 –
  Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.
• 1910 –
  The ocean liner SS France, later known as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
• 1930 –
  Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
• 1942 –
  Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
• 1961 –
  Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1971 –
  Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
• 2000 –
  The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
• 2002 –
  The Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide.

Who were born on September 20?

• 1920 –
  Alberto de Lacerda, Portuguese poet (d. 2007)
• 1928 –
  Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
• 1937 –
  Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
• 1938 –
  Eric Gale, American jazz and session guitarist and record producer (d. 1994)
• 1941 –
  Jim Cullum, Jr., American jazz cornetist noted for his contributions to the Dixieland jazz tradition
• 1969 –
  Tim Rogers, Australian musician
• 1971 –
  Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
• 1971 –
  Sebastian Roth, German musician
• 1981 –
  Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player
• 1987 –
  Jack Lawless, American drummer

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