Astromusicologie 101 September Blues
September Events:
September begins on the same day of the week as December every year.
September’s flower is the aster or morning glory.
September’s birthstone is the sapphire.
In the Netherlands the third Tuesday in September is known as prinsjesdag. The government presents its annual budget. The queen rides to the parliament in a gilded coach and reads the plans for the coming year to the States-general.
The equinox named the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere and the vernal or spring equinox in the southern hemisphere occurs on dates varying from 21 September to 24 September (in UTC). In the pagan wheel of the year the spring equinox is the time of Ostara and the autumn equinox is that of Mabon.
In KwaZulu-Natal, king Shaka is commemorated on the last Sunday of September.
Counterintuitively, the German Oktoberfest and the Chinese August Moon festival (more correctly called the Mid-Autumn Festival) both occur in September.
In Australia, Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September.
On 11 September, 1973, democratically elected Marxist President Salvador Allende of Chile was overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet as part of a US-backed coup. Some 3000 individuals are known to have been executed under his rule.
