What Day of the Week

September 5, 2019 is the 248^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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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• 1698

  In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
• 1781

  Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
• 1862

  American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White’s Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
• 1914

  World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• 1937

  Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
• 1945

  Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
• 1957

  Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• 1960

  The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
• 1977

  Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
• 1991

  The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.

• 1725

  Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
• 1836

  Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
• 1944

  Gareth Evans, Australian politician, University Chancellor
• 1951

  Michael Keaton, American actor
• 1977

  Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
• 1980

  Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
• 1981

  Nina Eichinger, German actress
• 1982

  Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
• 1984

  Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish professional bicyclist
• 1986

  Colt McCoy, American football player

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