Holidays Calendar for September 14, 2024
San Jacinto Day is a Nicaraguan public holiday celebrated on September 14. It commemorates the Battle of San Jacinto which took place in 1856 during the Filibuster War.
On September 14, Western Christian churches celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, often referred to as the Feast of the Cross. It commemorates the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 355.
World First Aid Day is a global observance held on the second Saturday in September. It was instituted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in 2000 and has been celebrated each year ever since.
World Atopic Eczema Day, also known as World Eczema Day, is observed annually on September 14 to raise awareness of a skin condition that affects millions of people around the globe and severely impacts their well-being and quality of life.
Day of Ukrainian Cinema is the professional holiday of all Ukrainian film industry employees, from actors and directors to support staff. It is celebrated on the second Saturday in September. The holiday was established by President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in 1996.
Day of Physical Culture and Sport is a Ukrainian holiday that has been observed on the second Saturday in September since 1994. It is celebrated by professional athletes, coaches, PE teachers, amateur sportsmen, and sports enthusiasts throughout the country.
All Romanian engineers annually celebrate their professional holiday, known as Engineer's Day, on September 14. This holiday was officially established in 2000.
Day of Energy Industry Workers is an official professional holiday in Turkmenistan celebrated on the second Saturday in September. It was established in 2003 as Day of the Employees of the Oil, Gas, Energy and Geological Industries, but its name was shortened for the sake of convenience.
Armored Troops Day, also known as Tank Troops Day, is a professional holiday in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Its roots can be traced back to the Soviet era, but the current date of the holiday, September 14, was officially adopted in 2023.
In India, Hindi Day is celebrated on September 14. It commemorates the day Hindi was adopted as the official language of the Dominion of India.
Ukrainian Borscht Day is celebrated annually on the second Saturday of September in honor of one of the most iconic dishes of Ukrainian cuisine. Even though it has not been designated as an official holiday in Ukraine yet, it is widely observed in Ukraine and by Ukrainians abroad.
Cochabamba Day in Bolivia is celebrated annually on September 14. This is a regional holiday marked in the Cochabamba Department to commemorate the revolution of 1810, which was an important event of the Bolivian war of independence.
September 14 is a holiday for all of your with a sweet tooth out there as it is the National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day. To celebrate this holiday, indulge yourself with this delicious pastry.
The origin of National Eat a Hoagie Day, celebrated annually on September 14, its unclear but it is safe to assume that this food day originated in or around Philadelphia, since this is where submarine sandwiches are called hoagies.
Karam (also known as Karma, Karam Puja or Karma Puja) is a traditional harvest festival celebrated by a number of ethnic groups living in the Indian states of Assam, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and West Bengal. In Jharkhand, it even has the status of an official state holiday.
Nepal is the land of festivals and colorful events, that people enjoy very much. One of the most favorite non-religious events in Nepal is Children's Day, that's annually celebrated on September 14 (or September 15 in leap years).
Festivals on September 14, 2024
- Northern California Renaissance Faire in Hollister, USA
- Floriade in Canberra, Australia
- Small Press Expo in Bethesda, USA
- Tesselaar Tulip Festival in Silvan, Australia
- International Festival of Comics and Games in Lodz in Lodz, Poland
- Truckfest in Knutsford, United Kingdom
- Bruges Beer Festival in Bruges, Belgium
- Oz Comic-Con in Brisbane, Australia
- Bloody Scotland in Stirling, United Kingdom
- Wine Harvest Festival in the Czech Republic in Znojmo, Czech Republic
- Pacific Meridian Film Festival in Vladivostok, Russia
- Harvest Moon Festival in Clearwater, Canada
- Slunce ve Skle Beer Festival in Plzen, Czech Republic
- UniCon & Game Expo Minsk in Minsk, Belarus
- GOGBOT in Enschede, Netherlands
This Day in History
- 2009 Died: Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter best known for his roles in Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break, and Donnie Darko.
- 2008 Aeroflot Flight 821 crashed into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport in Russia, killing all 88 people on board.
- 2005 Died: Robert Wise, American filmmaker who won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for West Side Story and The Sound of Music.
- 2000 Microsoft launched Windows Millennium Edition, also known as Windows ME. This release had a short shelf life of just over a year.
- 1987 Born: Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress. She is probably best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey.
- 1984 Retired U.S. Air Force pilot Joseph Kittinger began his solo Atlantic crossing in a gas balloon. He was the first to complete such a crossing.
- 1983 Born: Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter known for her eclectic mix of musical genres and deep vocals. She died at the age of 27.
- 1982 Died: Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco. She met Prince Rainier III at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival and married him in 1956.
- 1975 Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. She was canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1973 Born: Andrew Lincoln, English actor known for his roles as Mark in Love Actually and Rick Grimes on the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead.
- 1971 Born: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American actress best known for her roles in Father of the Bride, The 10th Kingdom, According to Jim, and Nashville.
- 1960 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was established in Baghdad, Iraq. As of 2024, it had a total of 12 member states.
- 1959 Born: Morten Harket, Norwegian musician and singer-songwriter, primarily known as the lead singer of the synthpop/rock band A-ha.
- 1954 The Soviet army undertook a nuclear exercise in Totskoye range in order to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war.
- 1947 Born: Sam Neill, New Zealand actor. Considered an "international leading man", he has been regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation.
- 1939 Igor Sikorsky's single-engine helicopter Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 made its first flight. It was flown by Sikorsky himself, tethered by cables.
- 1937 Died: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovak politician, sociologist, and philosopher who served as the first President of Czechoslovakia.
- 1936 Born: Walter Koenig, American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series and subsequent films.
- 1936 Born: Ferid Murad, American pharmacologist and physician who was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1927 Died: Isadora Duncan, American dancer and choreographer who had to leave the United States due to her pro-Soviet sympathies.
- 1920 Born: Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician. He is regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.
- 1920 Born: Lawrence Klein, American economist who won the 1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for the creation of econometric models.
- 1915 Born: John Dobson, American amateur astronomer who designed the Dobsonian telescope, a type of the Newtonian telescope.
- 1901 Died: William McKinley, American politician who served as the 25th President of the US. He was assassinated during his second term.
- 1879 Born: Margaret Sanger, American nurse, sex educator, and birth control activist, known for opening the first birth control clinic in the United States.
- 1864 Born: Robert Cecil, British lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was awarded the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the League of Nations.
- 1852 Died: Augustus Pugin, English architect, designer, artist, and citric who created the interior design for the Palace of Westminster.
- 1851 Died: James Fenimore Cooper, American author of historical fiction whose best known work is his Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans.
- 1829 Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Adrianople, also known as the Treaty of Edirne, that ended the Russo-Turkish War.
- 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte's troops entered Moscow following the Battle of Borodino. The fire that broke out that day destroyed most of the city.
- 1769 Born: Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist, geographer, and explorer, best known for his contributions to botanical geography.
- 1712 Died: Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and astrologist. He discovered four satellites of Saturn.
- 1638 Died: John Harvard, English-American minister and philanthropist who contributed to the foundation of the college that was named after him.
- 786 Harun al-Rashid became the fifth Abbasid Caliph following the death of his brother Al-Hadi. He ruled during the peak of the Islamic Golden Age.