What Day of the Week

September 12, 2021 is the 255^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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

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

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.

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• 490 BC

  Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
• 1213

  Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
• 1609

  Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
• 1857

  The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
• 1910

  Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler’s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
• 1942

  World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
• 1943

  World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
• 1979

  Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
• 1992

  NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
• 2007

  Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.

• 1852

  H. H. Asquith, British statesman (d. 1928)
• 1916

  Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
• 1951

  Bertie Ahern, Irish politician
• 1964

  Dieter Hecking, German footballer
• 1973

  Darren Campbell, British athlete
• 1980

  Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
• 1981

  Staciana Stitts, American swimmer
• 1982

  Nana Ozaki, Japanese model
• 1982

  Zoran Planinic, Croatian basketball player
• 1984

  September, Swedish singer

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