Friday September 20, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

September 20: Day of the Week

September 20, 2024 is the 264th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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.

September 20 Historical Event(s)

1058
Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
1871
Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
1906
Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1911
White Star Line’s RMS Olympic collides with british warship HMS Hawke.
1942
Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1973
Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1977
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.
1982
The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.
1990
South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
2007
Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.

Who were born on September 20?

1893
Hermann Lux, German footballer (d. 1962)
1933
Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)
1937
Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
1947
Mia Martini, Italian singer (d. 1995)
1947
Steve Gerber, American comics writer (d. 2008)
1960
Dave Hemingway, British musician, songwriter, and vocalist
1967
Kristen Johnston, American actress
1969
Patrick Pentland, Canadian musician (Sloan)
1971
Sebastian Roth, German musician
1981
Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player

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