What Day of the Week

September 5, 2020 is the 249^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1661

  Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
• 1941

  Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1942

  World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
• 1943

  World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
• 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.
• 1945

  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 1970

  Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
• 1978

  Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
• 1980

  The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
• 1984

  STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

• 1769

  John Shortland, English naval officer (d. 1810)
• 1897

  Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (d. 1980)
• 1917

  Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
• 1946

  Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
• 1949

  Clem Clempson, English rock guitarist
• 1950

  Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
• 1956

  Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
• 1979

  Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• 1981

  Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
• 1981

  Nina Eichinger, German actress

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