What Day of the Week

September 8, 2020 is the 252^nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

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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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• 1380

  Battle of Kulikovo – Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
• 1756

  French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
• 1810

  The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor’s newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor’s men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass – on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• 1935

  US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
• 1951

  Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
• 1965

  Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
• 1967

  The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
• 1974

  Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• 2004

  NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

• 1889

  Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953)
• 1940

  Jack Prelutsky, American author
• 1946

  L. C. Greenwood, American football player
• 1951

  Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
• 1963

  Alexandros Alexiou, Greek footballer
• 1970

  Neko Case, American musician
• 1971

  Dustin O'Halloran, American pianist and composer
• 1976

  Brendan Kelly, American musician (The Lawrence Arms)
• 1987

  Danielle Frenkel, Israeli high jumper
• 1997

  Kimberlea Berg, English actress

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