September 14: Day of the Week
September 14, 2022 is the 257th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.
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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.
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September 14 Historical Event(s)
- 81Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
- 786“Night of the three Caliphs”: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Birth of Harun’s son al-Ma'mun.
- 1752The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- 1808Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes in the bloody Battle of Oravais.
- 1829The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1901President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1944World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
- 1984Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 2001Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.
- 2007Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
Who were born on September 14?
- 1769Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
- 1889María Capovilla, previous oldest living person (d. 2006)
- 1914Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1917Dame Phyllis Frost, Australian welfare worker and philanthropist (d. 2004)
- 1934Don Walser, American country music singer and yodeller (d. 2006)
- 1936Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1946Jim Angle, American television reporter
- 1949Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1986Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
- 1986Andrew James Trauth, American actor
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