Holidays Calendar for September 4, 2024
Martyrdom of Imam Reza is an Iranian religious and public holiday celebrated on the 29th or 30th day of the Islamic month of Safar. It is dedicated to Ali al-Ridha, also known as Imam Riza, the eight Shia Imam.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Toothfish Day in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
The British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands may be remote, tiny and with no permanent population, but it does have its own unique public holidays. One of them is Toothfish Day, celebrated annually on September 4.
International Taekwondo Day is celebrated annually on September 4. The observance was initiated by World Taekwondo, formerly known as the World Taekwondo Federation. Of course, the very first celebration of International Taekwondo Day was held in South Korea, the country where this martial art originated from.
PKD Awareness Day, also known as Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Day, is observed annually on September 4. It was launched to raise awareness of a common genetic disorder that causes the growth of multiple cysts on the kidneys, which can lead to kidney failure if left untreated.
Nuclear Provision Expert's Day is observed in Russia on September 4 every year. This professional holiday was established by presidential decree in 2006.
Customs Service Worker's Day is a professional day in the Republic of Moldova. This day was established by presidential decree in 1995 to commemorate the anniversary of creation of the Customs Service in independent Moldova in 1991.
September 4 is Rescuer's Day in Armenia. This professional day was established by the government of Armenia in 2008 to honor the rescuers and their work. They are real heroes, who always come to help people.
National Wildlife Day in the United States is celebrated twice a year, on February 22 and on September 4. Its main task is to raise public awareness about the plight of endangered species, both in the United States and across the world.
Immigrant's Day is celebrated annually in Argentina on national level on September 4. This holiday isn't included into the list of the public holidays, however, it's widely celebrated by people of Argentina.
Book Day in Tajikistan is celebrated annually on September 4. On this day in 2007, the cornerstone of the new building of the National Library of Tajikistan was laid.
Indigenous Literacy Day is an annual awareness campaign organized by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILS), an Australian not-for-profit charity whose main purpose is to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote communities with educational tools and resources. It is observed on the first Wednesday of September.
Royal Thai Navy Submarine Memorial Day (Wan Ruea Dam Nam Thai), also known as simply Submarine Day, is celebrated annually on September 4. It honors the submarine crews that served in the Royal Thai Navy between 1938 and 1951, before Thai submarines were officially decommissioned.
Although macadamia nuts are not nuts in a botanical sense, they are referred to as nuts in culinary context. They even have a holiday dedicated to them: National Macadamia Nut Day is celebrated on September 4.
September 4 is National Newspaper Carrier Day in the USA. This holiday is created to appreciate all newspaper carriers and convenience that they provide to us.
If you love to use herbs and spices in cooking, or if you want to use them more but are not sure where to begin, you absolutely should celebrate National Spice Blend Day. Observed on September 4, it was created to celebrate the numerous spice blends used in cuisines around the globe.
Cooperation Day is an Iranian holiday celebrated on the 13th day of the month of Shahrivar, which corresponds to September 4 in the Gregorian calendar. On this day in 1991, the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis, the Iranian Parliament) adopted the Act on the Cooperative Sector of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
National Customer Day (Hari Pelanggan Nasional, Harpelnas) is celebrated in Indonesia annually on September 4. Its celebration was initiated in 2003 by the Indonesian entrepreneur Handi Irawan Djuwandi, best known as the founder and CEO of Frontier Consulting Group.
Festivals on September 4, 2024
- Moscow International Book Fair in Moscow, Russia
- Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria
- LINOLEUM International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Moors and Christians Festival in Villena in Villena, Spain
- JavaZone in Oslo, Norway
- Sydney Fringe Festival in Sydney, Australia
- Connecticut Renaissance Faire in Lebanon, USA
- King Richard’s Faire in Carver, USA
- Renaissance Faire at Sleepy Hollow in Des Moines, USA
- Kansas City Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs, USA
- Ohio Renaissance Festival in Harveysburg, USA
- Brisbane Festival in Brisbane, Australia
- Halifax Fringe Festival in Halifax, Canada
- Apollonia Festival of Arts in Sozopol, Bulgaria
- Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy
This Day in History
- 2022 Myles Sanderson killed 11 and injured 18 people in a mass stabbing at 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 2020 Pope Benedict XVI became the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
- 2014 Died: Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, producer, writer, and television host. She was noted for her blunt, often controversial comedic persona that was heavily self-deprecating and acerbic.
- 2007 Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
- 2006 Died: Steve Irwin, nicknamed The Crocodile Hunter, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist. He was killed by a stingray while filming in the Great Barrier Reef.
- 2006 Died: Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator. He was best known for his award-winning children's fiction, most notably the novels Storm Boy, Blue Fin, and the Sun on the Stubble series.
- 2000 Born: Ruby Stokes, English actress. She is best known for playing Francesca in the first two seasons of Bridgerton and Lucy Carlyle in Lockwood & Co.
- 1998 Two students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded Google, an American corporation that has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world".
- 1997 Died: Dharamvir Bharati, Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was awarded the Padma Shree for literature in 1972 by the Government of India.
- 1989 Died: Georges Simenon, Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most popular authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels.
- 1981 Born: Beyoncé, American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman. Nicknamed "Queen Bey", she is regarded as a prominent cultural figure of the 21st century, recognized for her distinctive vocal range and live performances.
- 1979 Born: Max Greenfield, American actor. He is best known for co-starring as Schmidt in the Fox sitcom New Girl and voicing Roger in the Ice Age franchise.
- 1968 Born: American actor. His various voice roles include Bender on Futurama, Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, Marcus Fenix in the Gears of War series, Dr. Drakken on Kim Possible, and more.
- 1965 Died: Albert Schweitzer, German-born, French polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician.
- 1963 Died: Robert Schuman, Luxembourg-born French statesman. He was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO.
- 1962 Born: Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.
- 1957 The Ford Motor Company introduced a new brand of automobiles, the Edsel. This car never gained popularity in the United States and resulted in a huge loss for the company.
- 1951 The first live transcontinental television broadcast took place, broadcasting the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference to San Francisco, United States.
- 1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicated the throne for health reasons in favor of her only daughter Juliana.
- 1925 Born: Asa Earl Carter, American segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist. His best-known fictional works is The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales.
- 1913 Born: Stanford Moore, He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller University on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease.
- 1913 Born: Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, one of the most significant architects of the 20th century. He is known for his style of combining traditional Japanese style and modernism.
- 1907 Died: Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer and pianist, widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers. His most successful work is incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt.
- 1906 Born: Max Delbrück, German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s.
- 1901 Born: William Lyons, English businessman, known as "Mr. Jaguar". He was the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after WWII.
- 1888 American innovator George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak and received a patent for his camera. It had been one of the mainstream photographic products until the end of the 20th century.
- 1886 After almost 30 years of fighting in the American Indian Wars, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrendered to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
- 1882 The Pearl Street Station in New York City became the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers, serving an initial load of 400 lamps to 82 customers.
- 1870 Emperor Napoleon III of France was deposed, the Third Republic was proclaimed, and Adolphe Thiers became its first president. The Republic existed until 1940, when France was occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1848 Born: Lewis Howard Latimer, African-American inventor and draftsman. He was employed by Alexander Graham Bell to draft the necessary drawings required to receive a patent for the telephone.
- 1821 Died: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general, member of the prominent Carrera family. He is considered to be one of the founders of independent Chile and the most important leader in the Chilean War of Independence.
- 1809 Born: Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet, one of Three Bards of Polish literature. He was a major figure in the Polish Romantic period and the father of modern Polish drama.
- 1784 Died: César-François Cassini de Thury, also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer. He was the first director of the Paris Observatory.
- 1768 Born: François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. His works include the autobiography Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe ("Memoirs from Beyond the Grave"), published posthumously.