This is September, the ninth month in our current calendar.

The word September comes from the Latin, Septem, which means '7' and was the seventh month in the Roman calendar.

The word 'month' is derived from the Old English word for moon. The length of a month was originally the time between two full moons. The backwoods moon of September is called the Harvest Moon and many crops are ready to be harvested this month. The Autumnal Equinox is September 22, this year.

September's flower is the Morning Glory and the gem is a Sapphire.

Labor Day is the only legally celebrated holiday in September. The first Labor Day was celebrated on September 3rd, 1894. Other holidays observed this month are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Some notable dates in September:
Jesse James was born on September 5th, 1847
President McKinley was shot by an assassin on September 6th, 1901 and later died on September 14
L. M. Mercer, writer and poet was born on September 6th
Queen Elizabeth I was born on September 7th, 1533
California became the 31st state on September 9th, 1850
The Selective Service Act (the draft) was passed on September 14th, 1940
Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15th, 1789
The Constitution of the United States was signed on September 17th, 1787
President James Garfield died from an assassin's bullet on September 19th, 1881
Augustus, the first Roman Emperor was born on September 23rd, in 63 BC
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24th, 1896
William Faulkner was born on September 25th, 1897
T.S. Elliot was born on September 26th, 1888
Terry D. Scheerer was born on September 26th, 1949
William the Conqueror landed in England on September 28, 1066 and thus changed the direction the known world would take for the next 1,000 years.