The name “September” comes from the Latin. septem – “seven”. Until 1700, the official Orthodox church year began with it.
HOLIDAYS:
Knowledge Day.
Belarus – Day of Belarusian Writing.
Belarus – Day of oil, gas and fuel industry workers.
Uzbekistan – Independence Day.
SIGNS:
Andrey Stratilat, Fyokla Beetroot. Indian summer. The wind blowing this day from the south promises a harvest of oats. On Thekla, dig beets.
BORN:
1848 Auguste-Henry FOREL, Swiss neuropathologist and psychiatrist, author of the world bestseller The Sex Question.
1875 Edgar Rice Burrows, American writer. He wrote about 60 novels. The core of his legacy is the Tarzan novels. About himself, he said this: “I am one of those who arrive at the fire when it is already extinguished.”
1896 Bhaktivedanta (Abhay Charan DE), an Indian religious figure and writer who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in 1965, better known as the Hare Krishna movement.
1899 Andrey Platonovich PLATONOV (KLIMENTOV), Russian writer, poet.
1956 Nadezhda Alekseevna CHEPRAGA, Moldavian singer. She has a son. Chepraga keeps more than 300 pairs of shoes that she has worn at concert venues.
1958 Sergei Leonidovich GARMASH, Russian actor. He has a daughter and a son. By the way, artillerymen were called harmashes in the army of Zaporizhzhya Cossacks.
1962 Ruud GULLIT, Dutch football player and coach, originally from Suriname.
1973 Sergei Stanislavovich BOBUNETS, leader of the Semantic Hallucinations group.
1974 Renars KAUPERS, vocalist of the Latvian band Brainstorm. He has three sons.
1983 Daria Yuryevna MOROZ, Russian actress, daughter of actress Marina LEVTOVA. Daria has a daughter, Anna.
1987 Zoya Rudolfovna BERBER, Russian actress (TV series “Real Boys”). She has a daughter, Hope.
1989 Bill KAULITZ, Tom KAULITZ, twin brothers, members of the German band Tokio Hotel.
EVENTS:
1581 The conquest of Siberia began. Yermak gathered a detachment of 840 Cossacks, with whom in the spring of the following year he reached the possessions of Khan KUCHUMA.
1878 Initially, only men worked as telephone operators. However, subscribers often complained about the rudeness of operators. The first woman was hired to answer in a polite and friendly voice on the other end of the line. The first female operator was Emma NUTT, on this day she began working – answering “Number pu-leeeeeze” – at the Boston telephone company Dispatch and worked for 33 years.
1939 The Second World War began. Germany invaded Poland and annexed Danzig.
1939 The rank of “lieutenant colonel” was established in the Soviet Army.
1964 For the first time, the TV program “Good night, kids!” was aired.
1969 The ensemble “Pesnyary” was founded at the Belarusian Philharmonic Society. Prior to this, the group was called “Lyavony”.
1981 Saudi Arabia launched the world’s first cellular telephone network.
1973 A terrorist in the Moscow Mausoleum threw a bomb (the sarcophagus was not injured, several visitors died).
1985 An American-French expedition at a depth of about 4000 m discovered the wreckage of the Titanic liner that sank after colliding with an iceberg in 1912.
2004 Hostage-taking at school No. 1 in the city of Beslan (North Ossetia), committed by a detachment of Chechen fighters. For 3 days the terrorists kept 1128 people (children, their parents and school staff) in the school building. As a result of the terrorist attack, more than 350 people (1% of the city’s population) died from among the hostages, civilians and military personnel who participated in their rescue. Half of the dead are children. Over 500 people were injured. 31 terrorists killed, 1 arrested and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment.
