What Day of the Week

September 8, 2021 is the 251^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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

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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.
• 1504

  Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
• 1900

  Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• 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.
• 1959

  The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
• 1960

  In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• 1962

  Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
• 1975

  Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline “I Am A Homosexual”. He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.
• 2004

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

• 1783

  Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1886

  Ninon Vallin, French operatic soprano (d. 1961)
• 1931

  John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007)
• 1933

  Michael Frayn, British playwright
• 1948

  Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971)
• 1951

  Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
• 1955

  Julian Richings, English-born Canadian actor
• 1955

  Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist
• 1962

  Christopher Klim, American novelist
• 1996

  Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress

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