What Day of the Week

September 6, 2019 is the 249^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 116 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

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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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• 1522

  The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• 1939

  World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
• 1943

  The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.
• 1963

  The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
• 1970

  Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson’s Field in Jordan.
• 1976

  Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
• 1991

  The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• 2009

  The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.

• 1900

  Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998)
• 1925

  Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (d. 1976)
• 1926

  Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
• 1937

  Brigid Berlin, American actor
• 1954

  Demetris Kizas, Greek-Cypriot footballer
• 1957

  José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1972

  Dylan Bruno, American actor (Numb3rs)
• 1978

  Marlen Angelidou, Greek singer
• 1979

  Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
• 1987

  Ramiele Malubay, American singer

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