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4 September 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 4 September 2023 was a Monday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Vampire” by Olivia Rodrigo.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 4 September is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 4 September 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 4 September 2023 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 4 September
- 1985 The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
- 1989 In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
- 1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.
- 2001 Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
- 2002 The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017.
Famous people born on 4 September
- Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter (born 1981)
- Wes Bentley, American actor and producer (born 1978)
- Max Greenfield, American actor (born 1979)
- Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (1973–2022)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2023 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 22 April – Sunak holds an emergency COBRA meeting to discuss the evacuation of British nationals caught up in the Sudan conflict.
- 13 May – The final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Liverpool. The contest is won by Sweden's Loreen with the song "Tattoo", who becomes only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.
- 20 June – British businessmen Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, along with Dawood's son, Suleman, are confirmed as being aboard the missing submersible that disappeared during a voyage to see the wreck of the RMS Titanic two days earlier.
Life in 2023
Prime Minister
Rishi Sunak
Monarch
Charles III
Pint of Beer
£4.80
Loaf of Bread
£1.95
Average House
£291,228
Weekly Wage
£1,035.00
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