Important Dates: September 2017

Days

3^rd Fathers Day (Australia) Link

4^th Labor Day (USA) Link

4^th Labour Day (Canada) Link

7^th-10^th Heritage Open Days Link

8^th International Literacy Day Link

10^th World Suicide Prevention Day Link

10^th National Dementia Carers Day Link

11^th Patriot Day Link

13^th Roald Dahl Day Link

15^th World Lymphoma Day Link

15^th National Teaching Assistants Day Link

15^th-17^th Clean up the World Weekend Link

15^th-18^th Beachwatch Big Weekend Link

16^th National Step Family Day (USA) Link

17^th Australian Citizenship Day Link

17^th US Constitution Day Link

19^th International Talk Like a Pirate Day Link

21^st International Day of Peace Link

22^nd World Carfree Day Link

22^nd Jeans for Genes Day Link

25^th International Ataxia Awareness Day

26^th European Day of Languages  Link

27^th World School Milk Day Link

28^th World Maritime Day  Link

28^th World Rabies Day Link

29^th World Heart Day Link

29^th World’s Biggest Coffee Morning Link

Weeks

2^nd-17^th Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight Link

3^rd-9^th Migraine Awareness Week Link

4^th-8^th Zero Waste Week www.zerowasteweek.co.uk

11^th-17^th Lymphatic Cancer Awareness Week www.lymphomas.org.uk/lymphatic-cancer-awareness-week-2017

13^th-17^th Agatha Christie Festival www.iacf-uk.org/

16^th-22^nd European Mobility Week Link

16^th-24^th National Eczema Week Link

18^th-24^th Know Your Numbers Week Link

18^th-24^th National Cupcake Week https://bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/17759/British_Baker_s_National_Cupcake_Week.html

18^th-24^th World Reflexology Week Link

23^rd-8^th Oct British Food Fortnight Link

24^th-2^nd Oct Red Squirrel Week Link

Months

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Link

Friendship Month https://www.oddfellows.co.uk/about/friendship-month/

International Blood Cancer Awareness Month Link

Organic September Link

World Alzheimers Month https://www.alz.co.uk/world-alzheimers-month

23^rd – 23^rd Oct Seed Gathering Season Link

September Religious Days   

1^st–4^th Eid al Adha (Islam)

8^th Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)

14^th The Elevation of the Life Giving Cross (Christian)

21^st-22^nd Rosh Hashanah (Jewish)

21^st-22^nd New Year – Hijra (Islam)

21^st-29^th Navaratri (Hindu)

22^nd Autumn Equinox

25^th Ganesh Chaturthi (Hindu)

27^th Meskel (Ethiopian Christian)

29^th St Michael and All Angels (Christian)

30^th Yom Kippur (Jewish)

30^th Dasara (Hindu)

September National Days

1^st Uzbekistan: National Day
2^nd Libya: National Day
2^nd Vietnam: Proclamation of Independence
3^rd Qatar: National Day
3^rd San Marino: National Foundation Day
6^th Swaziland: National Day
7^th Brazil: Independence Day
8^th Andorra: National Day
8^th The Independence Day, Republic of Macedonia
9^th North Korea: National Day (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
9^th Tajikistan: National Day
15^th Costa Rica: Independence Day
15^th El Salvador: Independence Day
15^th Guatemala: Independence Day
15^th Honduras: Independence Day
15^th Nicaragua: Independence Day
16^th Mexico: Proclamation Day
16^th Papua New Guinea: Independence Day
18^th Chile: National Anniversary
19^th St Kitts Nevis: Independence Day
21^st Armenia: National Day
21^st Belize: National Day
21^st Malta: Independence Day
22^nd Mali: Independence Day
23^rd Saudi Arabia: National Day
24^th Guinea Bissau: National Day
30^th Botswana: National Day

September This Day in History

­­1^st Germany invades Poland (1939)

1^st Britain’s first supermarket opens at Earl’s Court in London (1951)

2^nd Great Fire of London begins in Pudding Lane (1666)

2^nd The first elections are held in the Irish Free State following independence from Britain (1923)

3^rd Great Britain, France, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany (1939)

3^rd The US spacecraft Viking II lands on (1976)

3^rd British speed enthusiast Malcolm Campbell sets new world land speed record 301.13mph  (1935)

3^rd Britain signs Treaty of Paris, which officially ends the American War of Independence (1783)

3^rd Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England at Westminster (1189)

4^th US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes first man to win 7 gold medals at the same Olympic Games (1972)

4^th US inventor George Eastman patents rolls of film for hand-held cameras (1886)

5^th ITV begins broadcasting in colour (1969)

6^th Start of a 17 day war between India and Pakistan when Indian troops invade West Pakistan (1965)

6^th Ferdinand Magellan completes first circumnavigation of the world (1522)

7^th Bishop Desmond Tutu becomes first black head of South Africa’s Anglicans (1986)

7^th Grace Darling rescues crew of a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast (1838)

8^th First broadcast of ‘Star Trek’ (1966)

8^th First official Football League matches in England  (1888)

9^th Chairman Mao Zedong dies at the age of 83 (1976)

10^th New Zealand is granted Dominion status (1907)

11^th Two hijacked planes crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center (2001)

11^th Scottish hero William Wallace defeats the English at Stirling Bridge (1297)

12^th Concorde lands at Heathrow Airport in London for the first time (1970)

12^th Los Angeles Police Department appoints the world’s first police woman, Alice Stebbin Wells (1910)

12^th English explorer Henry Hudson sails his ship ‘Half Moon’ into New York harbour (1609)

13^th The first criminal conviction using fingerprint evidence – Old Bailey Central Criminal Court (1902)

13^th The world’s first baseball club founded in New York (1845)

14^th The first successful test flight of a helicopter (1939)

15^th Battle of Britain (1940)

15^th In England, the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway line – and the first railway fatality. As MP William Huskisson steps from a train to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington he’s run over and killed (1830)

16^th The Episcopal Church in the US approves the ordination of women to the priesthood (1976)

16^th The 101 Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America from Plymouth, England in their ship’ The Mayflower’(1620)

17^th Prince Harry born (1984)

18^th France abolishes execution by guillotine  (1981)

19^th New Zealand becomes the first country to give women the vote (1893)

20^th The first RSPCA animal clinic opens in Liverpool (1917)

21^st Malta gains its independence (1964)

21^st France abolishes the monarchy and declares itself to be a Republic (1792)

22^nd Shipyard workers in Poland, led by Lech Walesa, form a new independent labour union (1980)

22^nd Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister to live in 10 Downing Street in London (1735)

23^rd German Astronomer Johann Galle discovers another planet  Neptune (1846)

24^th The prophet Muhammad escapes death by completing his flight, to Medina from Mecca  (622)

26^th Francis Drake becomes first British navigator to sail the earth (1580)

27^th The world’s first public passenger rail service begins – between Stockton and Darlington in the north of England (1825)

28^th Elizabeth Garrett Anderson becomes Britain’s first woman doctor (1865)

29^th Foundation of the first professionally organised police service in Britain (1829)

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