September 21

2024 Calendar

September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1217 – Livonian Crusade: Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian tribal leader Kaupo are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
1327 – After rejecting the throne, King Edward II of England is murdered in Berkeley, Gloucester.
1435 – An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in the Hundred Years' War.
1745 – A Hanoverian army is defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans by the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart.
1776 – Parts of New York City are burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780 – Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 – The National Convention in France abolishes the monarchy.
1843 – John Williams Wilson takes control of the Strait of Magellan, representing the newly independent Chilean government.
1846 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Monterrey begins.
1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
1896 – A British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola, Sudan.
1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

1901 – 2000

1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 561 people.
1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island, killing between 500 and 700 people.
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is killed by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
1942 – In Dunaivtski, Ukraine, the Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1949 – The People's Republic of China established in Beijing.^[1]^[2]^[3]
1960 – The Flag of Panama is flown next to the Flag of the United States at the Panama Canal for the first time.
1961 – First flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 – Malta becomes independent.
1965 – Gambia, the Maldives and Singapore join the UN.
1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the UN.
1972 – Ferdinand Marcos declares Martial Law in the Philippines.
1976 – The Seychelles join the UN.
1981 – Belize is granted independence from the United Kingdom.
1984 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the United States Senate to become the first female Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
1984 – Brunei joins the UN.
1989 – Hurricane Hugo hits the US state of South Carolina.
1991 – Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 – The Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 begins, as President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution.
1993 – A Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft is shot down by Abkhazian separatists near Sokhumi, Georgia.
1999 – An earthquake in Taiwan leaves 2,400 people dead.

From 2001

2001 – 31 people are killed in a chemical explosion in Toulouse, France.
2003 – The Galileo mission is ended by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2004 – In Dubai, building work begins on what would become the Burj Khalifa. It was opened on January 4, 2010 as the world's tallest building, at a height of 828 metres.
2013 – Westgate shopping mall shooting: A shooting attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, kills at least 68 people, and many people are taken hostage. Somali militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2013 – An attack at a funeral in Sadr City, Iraq, kills at least 60 people.
2016 – A boat estimated to be carrying hundreds of people sinks off Alexandria, Egypt, and is believed to have killed most of those on board.

Births

From 1976

1978 – Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player
1978 – Mario Miranda, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 – Chris Gayle, Jamaican cricketer
1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
1979 – James Allan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
1980 – Autumn Reeser, American actress
1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
1980 – Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer
1981 – Rimi Sen, Indian actress
1981 – Nicole Richie, American socialite
1982 – Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
1983 – Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
1983 – Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentine footballer
1983 – Maggie Grace, American actress
1983 – Greg Jennings, American football player
1987 – Ryan Guzman, American actor
1987 – Ashley Paris, American basketball player
1987 – Courtney Paris, American basketball player
1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
1989 – Jason Derulo, American singer
1989 – Emma Watkins, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1990 – Al-Farouq Aminu, Nigerian-American basketball player
1990 – Christian Serratos, American actress
1990 – Allison Scagliotti, American actress
1992 – Chen, South Korean singer
1994 – Ben Proud, English swimmer

Deaths

Up to 1900

19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
454 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general (b. 396)
687 – Pope Conon (b. 630)
1217 – Lembitu, Estonian tribal leader
1217 – Kaupo, Livonian tribal leader
1327 – King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian doctor, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1501)
1643 – Huang Taiji, Chinese Emperor (b. 1592)
1743 – Jai Singh II, Indian King (b. 1688)
1798 – George Read, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
1810 – Mir Taqi Mir, Urdu poet (b. 1723)
1832 – Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
1852 – William Badger, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1779)
1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1880 – Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
1895 – Viktor Rydberg, Swedish writer (b. 1828)

1901 – 2000

1904 – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
1929 – Nathaniel Edwin Harris, American politician (b. 1846)
1933 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896)
1939 – Armand Calinescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893)
1943 – Kingsley Wood, British politician (b. 1881)
1947 – Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1846)
1953 – Necmettin Sadak, Turkish politician (b. 1890)
1954 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1957 – Haakon VII, King of Norway (b. 1872)
1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish author, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1966 – Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1887)
1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
1976 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (b. 1932)
1982 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985 – Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American musician (b. 1951)
1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
1995 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1997 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998 – Florence Griffith-Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)

From 2001

2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (b. 1929)
2011 – Paulette Dubost, French actress (b. 1910)
2011 – Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate (b. 1968)
2012 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1913)
2012 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (b. 1917)
2012 – Michael Rye, American actor (b. 1918)
2014 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (b. 1953)
2014 – Caldwell Jones, American basketball player (b. 1950)
2014 – Cecilia Cenci, Argentine actress (b. 1942)
2014 – Frieda Szwillus, German supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2014 – Mike Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1927)
2015 – Armen Movsisyan, Armenian politician (b. 1962)
2015 – Yoram Gross, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director (b. 1926)
2017 – Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman, socialite and heiress (b. 1922)
2017 – William G. Stewart, British game show host (b. 1933)
2018 – Vitaliy Masol, former Prime minister of Ukraine (b. 1928)
2018 – Tran Dai Quang, President of Vietnam (b. 1956)
2019 – Aron Eisenberg, American actor (b. 1969)
2019 – Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
2019 – Sigmund Jaehn, German cosmonaut (b. 1937)
2019 – Günter Kunert, German writer (b. 1929)
2019 – Carl Ruiz, American chef and television personality (b. 1975)
2019 – Jevan Snead, American football player (b. 1987)
2019 – Woo Hye-mi, South Korean pop singer (b. 1988)

Observances

Independence Day (Belize and Malta)
International Day of Peace
Spring Day in some South American countries

References

↑ "The Chinese people have stood up". UCLA Center for East Asian Studies. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2006.
↑ Peaslee, Amos J. (2013). Constitutions of Nations: Volume I: Afghanistan to Finland. Springer. p. 533. ISBN 9789401771252.
↑ Chaurasia, R.S. (2004). History of Modern China. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 1. ISBN 978-81-269-0315-3.

[prcfounding-1] "The Chinese people have stood up". UCLA Center for East Asian Studies. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2006.

[prcf2-2] Peaslee, Amos J. (2013). Constitutions of Nations: Volume I: Afghanistan to Finland. Springer. p. 533. ISBN 9789401771252.

[prcf3-3] Chaurasia, R.S. (2004). History of Modern China. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 1. ISBN 978-81-269-0315-3.

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September 21

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1800

1801 – 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Observances

References