September 21
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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.
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Events [change]
- 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.
- 1745 – A Hannoverian army is defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans by the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart.
- 1780 – Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
- 1792 – The National Convention in France abolishes the monarchy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 – West Germany is established.
- 1960 – The Flag of Panama is flown next to the Flag of the United States at the Panama Canal for the first time.
- 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.
- 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.
Births [change]
- 1051 – Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1087)
- 1328 – Hongwu, Emperor of China (d. 1398)
- 1411 – Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, pretender to the English throne (d. 1460)
- 1415 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
- 1428 – Jingtai, Emperor of China (d. 1457)
- 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian philosopher and priest (d. 1498)
- 1559 – Cigoli, Florentine painter, architect and sculptor (d. 1613)
- 1706 – Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
- 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (d. 1836)
- 1758 – Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
- 1760 – Ivan Dimitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
- 1788 – Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (d. 1852)
- 1791 – Istvan Szechenyi, Hungarian entrepreneur and state reformer (d. 1860)
- 1819 – Princess Louise Marie Therese of France (d. 1864)
- 1840 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
- 1842 – Abd-ul-Hamid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
- 1846 – Mihaly Kolossa, Hungarian-Slovenian writer (d. 1906)
- 1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (d. 1926)
- 1863 – John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
- 1864 – Elena Vacarescu, Romanian writer (d. 1947)
- 1866 – H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
- 1866 – Charles Nicolle, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1928 (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
- 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
- 1896 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
- 1902 – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, British ethnologist (d. 1973)
- 1909 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (d. 1972)
- 1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Francoise Giroud, French feminist journalist and writer (d. 2003)
- 1918 – John Gofman, American scientist (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
- 1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Edouard Glissant, French writer (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Sandor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
- 1929 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, musician, poet and writer
- 1935 – Jimmy Armfield, English footballer
- 1936 – Sunny Murray, American jazz drummer
- 1936 – Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician, former Mayor of Moscow
- 1944 – Steve Beshear, American politician, Governor of Kentucky
- 1945 – Bjarni Tryggvason, Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and astronaut
- 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
- 1946 – Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councillor
- 1947 – Stephen King, American author
- 1947 – Don Felder, American rock music guitarist
- 1947 – Nick Castle, American actor
- 1950 – Charles Clarke, British politician
- 1950 – Bill Murray, American actor
- 1951 – Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
- 1951 – Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya (d. 2005)
- 1952 – Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
- 1953 – Reinhard Marx, German archbishop and cardinal
- 1954 – Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan
- 1954 – Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motorhead)
- 1955 – Richard Hieb, American astronaut
- 1955 – Mika Kaurismaki, Finnish director
- 1957 – Ethan Coen, American film director
- 1957 – Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
- 1957 – Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1959 – Crin Antonescu, Romanian politician
- 1961 – Nancy Travis, American actress
- 1965 – Cheryl Hines, American actress
- 1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor
- 1967 – Faith Hill, American singer
- 1968 – Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
- 1971 – Luke Wilson, American actor
- 1972 – Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
- 1973 – Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
- 1974 – Henning Fritz, German handball player
- 1978 – Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby player
- 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
- 1980 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1980 – Autumn Reeser, American actress
- 1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
- 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
- 1987 – Ashley Paris, American basketball player
- 1987 – Courtney Paris, American basketball player
- 1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
- 1989 – Jason Derulo, American singer
Deaths [change]
- 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
- 1217 – Lembitu, Estonian tribal leader
- 1217 – Kaupo, Livonian tribal leader
- 1327 – King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
- 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian doctor, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1501)
- 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
- 1643 – Huang Taiji, Chinese Emperor (b. 1592)
- 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)
- 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
- 1880 – Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
- 1904 – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
- 1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
- 1939 – Armand Calinescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1893)
- 1954 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
- 1957 – King Haakon VII of Norway, King of Norway (b. 1872)
- 1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1887)
- 1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
- 1982 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
- 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American musician (b. 1951)
- 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek film 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)
- 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)
