What Day of the Week

September 2, 2020 is the 246^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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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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• 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.
• 1811

  The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
• 1885

  Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
• 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.
• 1960

  The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
• 1990

  Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
• 1991

  Nagorno Karabakh declares its independence from Azerbaijan forming the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

• 1661

  Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
• 1941

  Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1943

  Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
• 1946

  Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
• 1947

  Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan)
• 1948

  Nate Archibald, American basketball player
• 1956

  Angelo Fusco, Northern Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member
• 1971

  César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
• 1982

  Joey Barton, English footballer
• 1986

  Rob Ramsay, Canadian Actor

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