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Tuesday, September 3, 2024 falls on a Tuesday. It is day 247 of the year, ISO week 36, in Q3.
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Tuesday, September 3
September 3, 2024 is day 247 of 366, ISO week 36, in Q3. The moon is New Moon and the zodiac sign is Virgo.
Day of year247
ISO week36
QuarterQ3
Days left119
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- New Moon
- Lunar age
- 29.4 days
- Illumination
- 0%
- Season
- Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, winter in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Virgo
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- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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Today's Celebrations
September 3
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Mansuetus of Toul
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Marinus
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Pope Gregory I
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Remaclus
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Prudence Crandall (Episcopal Church (USA))
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September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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China's victory over Japan commemoration related observances: Armed Forces Day (Republic of China)
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China's victory over Japan commemoration related observances: V-J Day (People's Republic of China)
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North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.
The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
At the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne, the flag of Australia flew for the first time.
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2024
Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish peer (born 1930)
2024
Wayne Graham, American baseball player and coach (born 1936)
2024
Charley Johnson, American football player (born 1938)
2017
Walter Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (born 1950)
2017
John Ashbery, American poet (born 1927)
2015
Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (born 1929)
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