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Friday, September 4, 2026
Friday, September 4, 2026 falls on a Friday. It is day 247 of the year, ISO week 36, in Q3.
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Friday, September 4
September 4, 2026 is day 247 of 365, ISO week 36, in Q3. The moon is Last Quarter and the zodiac sign is Virgo.
Day of year247
ISO week36
QuarterQ3
Days left118
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Last Quarter
- Lunar age
- 22.2 days
- Illumination
- 50%
- 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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September 4
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Candida the Elder
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Blessed Catherine of Racconigi
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Blessed Dina Bélanger
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Hermione of Ephesus
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Ida of Herzfeld
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Irmgardis (of Süchteln)
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Moses and Aaron (Lutheran Church and Eastern Orthodox Church)
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Paul Jones (Episcopal Church)
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Local briefFriday, September 4, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2010: A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to September 4.
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A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
Three African-American U.S. sea servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa raped a 12-year-old local girl, after kidnapping, beating, and torturing her.
The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).
The final novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, was released.
A white U.S. soldier raped and murdered a five-year-old local girl in Kadena, Okinawa.
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
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Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer (born 1934)
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Katharine, Duchess of Kent, member of the British royal family (born 1933)
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Bora Đorđević, Serbian singer (born 1952)
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Steve Harwell, American singer (born 1967)
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Cyrus Mistry, Indian-Irish businessman (born 1968)
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Peter Straub, American novelist (born 1943)
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