What Day of the Week

September 2, 2021 is the 245^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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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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• 31 BC

  Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium – off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
• 1752

  Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
• 1807

  The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
• 1870

  Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
• 1901

  Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair.
• 1935

  Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
• 1939

  World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
• 1958

  United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
• 1963

  CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• 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.

• 1830

  William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
• 1852

  Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935)
• 1931

  Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993)
• 1934

  Chuck McCann, American voice actor.
• 1937

  Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
• 1938

  Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
• 1951

  Michael Gray, American actor
• 1968

  Cynthia Watros, American actress
• 1971

  Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor
• 1971

  Shauna Sand, American actress and Playboy Playmate

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