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September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years ). There are 101 days remaining.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aëtius in his own throne room.
1217 - An Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights .
1745 - Battle of Prestonpans : A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan , but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
1780 - American Revolutionary War : Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point .
1792 - The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy .
1827 - According to Joseph Smith, Jr. , the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon 1860 - In the Second Opium War , an Anglo -French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao .
1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan .
1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " letter is published in the New York Sun .1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China .
1921 - Oppau explosion , a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau , Germany , 500—600 killed.
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit 1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York . The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard .
1942 - On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur , Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine ) to Belzec extermination camp .
1942 - On the end of Yom Kippur , the Germans ordered Konstantynow Jews (Poland ) to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghetto - established in Biala Podlaska , meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynow , Janów Podlaski , Rossosz , Terespol , and 3 more.
1942 - In Dunaivtsi , Ukraine , Nazis murder 2588 Jews .
1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States .
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom .
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie , the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California .
1970 - The Cleveland Browns beat the New York Jets at Cleveland Municipal Stadium 31-20 on the first edition of Monday Night Football .
1970 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law .
1976 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende , overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1979 - Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK . Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire , destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident - including a mother and her baby - and three people were killed.
1981 - Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom .
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina .
1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union .
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 .
1995 - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu god Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan , leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 - Deep Space 1 Comet Borrelly .
2001 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse , France , killing 29 people.
2003 - Galileo Jupiter 's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2004 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist) .
Births 1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398 )
1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York , claimant to the English throne (d. 1460 )
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493 )
1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457 )
1452 - Girolamo Savonarola , Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498 )
1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard , English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694 )
1645 - Louis Joliet , Canadian explorer (d. 1700 )
1756 - John MacAdam , Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836 )
1760 - Ivan Dmitriev , Russian statesman (d. 1837 )
1840 - Murad V , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904 )
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918 )
1849 - Maurice Barrymore , actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905 )
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926 )
1863 - John Bunny , American film comedian (d. 1915 )
1866 - H. G. Wells , English writer (d. 1946 )
1866 - Charles Nicolle , French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936 )
1873 - Papa Jack Laine , American musician (d. 1966 )
1874 - Gustav Holst , English composer (d. 1934 )
1895 - Sergei Yesenin , Russian poet (d. 1925 )
1899 - Frederick Coutts , the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986 )
1902 - Luis Cernuda , Spanish poet (d. 1963 )
1902 - Sir Allen Lane , British publisher and founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970 )
1906 - Henry Beachell , American plant breeder
1912 - Chuck Jones , American animator (d. 2002 )
1912 - György Sándor , Hungarian pianist (d. 2005 )
1917 - Phyllis Nicolson , British mathematician (d. 1968 )
1919 - Mario Bunge , Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 - Fazlur Rahman , Pakistani scholar (d. 1988 )
1926 - Donald A. Glaser , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Bernard Williams , English philosopher (d. 2003 )
1929 - Sándor Kocsis , Hungarian footballer (d. 1979 )
1931 - Larry Hagman , American actor
1933 - Dick Simon , American racing driver
1934 - Leonard Cohen , Canadian singer and songwriter
1935 - Henry Gibson , American actor
1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov , Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1938 - Doug Moe , American basketball player and coach
1940 - Bill Kurtis , American television journalist
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr. , CIA director
1941 - Jack Brisco , American professional wrestler
1944 - Fannie Flagg , American actress and novelist
1944 - Hamilton Jordan , President Carter 's original chief of staff
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer , American film and television producer
1945 - Richard Childress , NASCAR team owner
1945 - Shaw Clifton , the 18th General of The Salvation Army
1946 - Moritz Leuenberger , Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Stephen King , American author
1947 - Marsha Norman , American playwright
1947 - Don Felder , American guitarist (Eagles )
1949 - Artis Gilmore , American basketball player
1950 - Charles Clarke , British politician
1950 - Bill Murray , American actor
1951 - Bruce Arena , American soccer coach
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov , Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005 )
1952 - Anneliese Michel , Exorcism victim, known from the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose (d. 1972 )
1953 - Arie Luyendyk , Dutch race car driver
1954 - Shinzo Abe , Prime Minister of Japan
1954 - Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor , British musician, former drummer for Motörhead
1955 - Mika Kaurismäki , Finnish director
1955 - Richard Hieb , American astronaut
1956 - Jack Givens , American basketball player
1957 - Ethan Coen , American film director
1957 - Kevin Rudd , Australian Labor Party leader, future Australian PM
1957 - Sidney Moncrief , American basketball player
1959 - Dave Coulier , American actor
1959 - Danny Cox , baseball player
1959 - Corinne Drewery , British singer (Swing Out Sister )
1960 - David James Elliott , Canadian actor
1961 - Húbert Nói , Icelandic artist
1961 - Nancy Travis , American actress
1962 - Rob Morrow , American actor
1963 - Angus Macfadyen , Scottish actor
1963 - Curtly Ambrose , West Indian cricketer
1963 - Cecil Fielder , baseball player
1965 - Cheryl Hines , American actress
1965 - David Wenham , Australian actor
1967 - Faith Hill , American singer
1967 - Tyler Stewart , Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies )
1968 - Ricki Lake , American actress and talk show hostess
1969 - Jason Christiansen , baseball player
1971 - John Crawley , English cricketer
1971 - Luke Wilson , American actor
1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro , Dominican-born actor
1972 - Liam Gallagher , British singer (Oasis )
1972 - Jon Kitna , American football player
1972 - David Silveria , American drummer (KoЯn )
1974 - Andy Todd , English footballer
1975 - Doug Davis , baseball player
1976 - Poul Hübertz , Danish footballer
1976 - Jonas Bjerre , Danish singer and guitarist (Mew )
1979 - Richard Dunne , Irish footballer
1979 - Chris Gayle , West Indian cricketer
1979 - Julian Gray , English footballer
1980 - Kareena Kapoor , Indian actress
1980 - Tomas Scheckter , South African racing driver
1981 - Nicole Richie , American socialite
1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko , Indonesian-Australian actress
1982 - Danny Kass , American snowboarder
1982 - Rowan Vine , English footballer
1983 - Maggie Grace , American actress
1983 - Anna Meares , Australian cyclist
1983 - Joseph Mazzello , American actor
1985 - Maryam Hassouni , Dutch actor
1987 - Jimmy Clausen , American football quarterback at University of Notre Dame
1990 - Allison Scagliotti-Smith , American actress
1990 - Christian Serratos , American actress
1991 - Jordan Hasay , American track & field athlete
1991 - Zoe Weizenbaum , American actress
1998 - Brino quadruplets , American actor/actresses
Deaths 19 BC - Virgil , Roman poet (b. 70 BC )
454 - Aëtius , Roman general (bc. 396 )
1217 - Lembitu of Lehola , Estonian soldier
1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284 )
1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel , English military leader (executed) (b. 1346 )
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver , Spanish poet
1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500 )
1576 - Gerolamo Cardano , Italian mathematician (b. 1501 )
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle , French church leader (b. 1517 )
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières , Constable of France (b. 1543 )
1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker , German writer (b. 1647 )
1743 - Jai Singh II , King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688 )
1748 - John Balguy , English philosopher (b. 1686 )
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers , French general (b. 1769 )
1798 - George Read , American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733 )
1832 - Sir Walter Scott , Scottish writer (b. 1771 )
1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher (b. 1788 )
1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont , French geologist (b. 1794 )
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach , German historian (b. 1819 )
1904 - Chief Joseph , Nez Perce leader (b. 1840 )
1906 - Samuel Arnold , Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838 )
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin , French telegraph engineer (b. 1857 )
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874 )
1939 - Armand Călinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893 )
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto , Japanese inventor (b. 1858 )
1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872 )
1966 - Paul Reynaud , French politician (b. 1878 )
1971 - Bernardo Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887 )
1972 - Henry de Montherlant , French writer (b. 1896 )
1974 - Walter Brennan , American actor (b. 1894 )
1974 - Jacqueline Susann , American novelist (b. 1918 )
1976 - Orlando Letelier , Chilean diplomat (b. 1932 )
1987 - Jaco Pastorius , American bassist (b. 1951 )
1988 - Glenn Robert Davis , member of United States Congress (b. 1914 )
1995 - Rudy Perpich , American politician (b. 1928 )
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner , American athlete (b. 1959 )
2002 - Robert L. Forward , American physicist and writer (b. 1932 )
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman , American naturalist and educator (b. 1939 )
2006 - Edward Albert , American actor, son of Eddie Albert (b. 1951 )
2006 - Boz Burrell , English rock musician (b. 1946 )
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