Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: September 8
September 8, 2024 is the 252nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Virgo is your zodiac sign. Sapphire is your modern birthstone. Agate is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: September 8
- 1504 –Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Florence.
- 1551 –The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
- 1727 –A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- 1944 –World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
- 1962 –Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- 1966 –The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 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.
Who were born on September 8?
- 1929 –Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958)
- 1938 –Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer
- 1945 –Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1953 –Pascal Greggory, French actor
- 1956 –Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
- 1968 –Ray Wilson, Scottish musician
- 1969 –Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
- 1969 –Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1970 –Paul DiPietro, Canadian-born Swiss ice hockey player
- 1990 –Matt Barkley, American football player
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