Thursday Thirteen ~September

Thirteen Things About September According to the Georgian calendar, September is the ninth month. But, on the Roman calendar, it was the seventh month. September is one of the warmest months in the Southern United States (I can verify that). Five Jewish holidays are celebrated in September or early October. They are Rosh Ha-Shanah, or New Year; Tzom Gedaliah, a fast day; Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles; and Simhat Torah, a day of rejoicing. On September 17th, both Citizenship Day and Consititution Day are observed in the United States. LABOR DAY is the only legal holiday in September. It comes on the first Monday, and is celebrated in both the United States and Canada. Sapphire is the modern September birthstone and the gem designated for the 5th, 23rd and 45th wedding anniversary. Asters are the birth flower for September and the herb goddess Venus. My Dad was born September 2nd. Emperor Augustus of Rome was born with the given name Gaius Octavius on September 23, 63 B.C. September Song (Hubby and I use to dance to the Willie Nelson version) In the early morning hours of September 2,1666, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses filled with combustibles and a strong easterly wind transformed the blaze into an inferno. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on September 6, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died. September 2, 1789 the United States Treasury Department is founded. William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897 near Oxford, Mississippi.