Important Dates: September 2014

Days

1^st      Labor Day (USA)  Link

1^st       Labour Day (Canada)  Link

6^th      Puppy Farm Awareness Day  Link

7^th      Fathers Day (Australia)  Link

8^th      International Literacy Day  Link

10^th     World Suicide Prevention Day  Link

11^th     Patriot Day Link

11^th-14^th Heritage Open Days  Link

13^th     Roald Dahl Day  Link

16^th        National Step Family Day USA  Link

16^th     National Teaching Assistants Day  Link

17^th     Australian Citizenship Day  Link

17^th     US Constitution Day  Link

19^th     International Talk Like a Pirate Day  Link

19^th     Jeans for Genes Day  Link

19^th-21^st Clean up the World Weekend  Link

19^th-22^nd Beachwatch Big Weekend  Link

21^st     International Day of Peace  Link

22^nd    World Carfree Day  Link

24^th     World School Milk Day  Link

25^th     International Ataxia Awareness Day  Link

26^th     World’s Biggest Coffee Morning  Link

26^th     European Day of Languages  Link

25^th     World Maritime Day  Link

28^th     World Rabies Day  Link

29^th     World Heart Day  Link

Weeks

1^st-7^th    Zero Waste Week  Link

6^th-14^th    Fibromyalgia Awareness Week  Link

6^th-21^st   Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight  Link

7^th-13^th   Migraine Awareness Week  Link

13^th-21^st National Eczema Week  Link

14^th-21^st Agatha Christie Week  Link

15^th-21^st Lymphatic Cancer Awareness Week  Link

15^th-21^st Know Your Numbers Week  Link

15^th-21^st Meningitis Awareness Week  Link

16^th-22^nd European Mobility Week  Link

16^th-22^nd National Cupcake Week  Link

20^th-5^th Oct British Food Fortnight  Link

22^nd-26^th National Work Life Week  Link

22^nd-28^th World Reflexology Week  Link

Months

Friendship Month   Link

International Blood Cancer Awareness Month  Link

Organic September  Link

Pain Awareness Month USA  Link

World Alzheimers Month  Link

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

September Religious Days   

8^th      Nativity of the Theotokos (Christian)

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

11^th     Ethiopian New Year (Rastafari)

14^th     The Triumph of the Cross (Christian)

23^rd     Autumn Equinox (Pagan)

25^th     Navaratri (start)  (Hindu)

25^th     Rosh Hashanah (1^st day) (Jewish)

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 Independance 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
21st   Belize: National Day
21st   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      American swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the 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, London (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 United States 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 move into 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)

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

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

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

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