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September 21 in recent years

2008 (Sunday)

2007 (Friday)

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September 21 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year (Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

[edit] 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 is published.
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.
1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
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.
1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
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 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2001 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
2001 - University of Roorkee, becomes India's 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into 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).
2004 - Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.

[edit] Births

1051 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
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)
1706 - Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
1756 - John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
1819 - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1849 - Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born 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 founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
1905 - Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
1906 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
1912 - Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
1916 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist, writer and politician (d. 2003)
1917 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
1918 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
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 - Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
1935 - Henry Gibson, American actor
1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1936 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
1938 - Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
1940 - Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency director
1941 - Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
1944 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
1944 - Hamilton Jordan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's original chief of staff
1944 - Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
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. 1976)
1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
1954 - Shinzo Abe, Former Prime Minister of Japan
1954 - Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motörhead)
1955 - Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
1955 - Richard Hieb, American astronaut
1956 - Jack Givens, American basketball player
1956 - Marta Kauffman, American television producer
1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
1957 - Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
1957 - Kevin Rudd, Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister of Australia (2007-)
1957 - Penny Smith, English television presenter
1958 - Bruno Fitoussi, French poker 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 - Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
1963 - Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
1963 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
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
1970 - John Cudia, American actor
1971 - John Crawley, English cricketer
1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro, Dominican-born actor
1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor
1972 - Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
1972 - Jon Kitna, American football player
1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
1973 - Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
1974 - Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
1974 - Andy Todd, English footballer
1975 - Doug Davis, American baseball player
1975 - Ganesh, A Legend from India
1976 - Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
1976 - Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
1977 - Brian Tallet, American baseball player
1978 - Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1979 - Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
1979 - Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1979 - Julian Gray, English footballer
1980 - Robert Hoffman, American actor
1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
1980 - Aleksa Palladino, American actress
1980 - Autumn Reeser, American actress
1980 - Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
1981 - Nicole Richie, American socialite
1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
1982 - Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Danny Kass, American snowboarder
1982 - Rowan Vine, English footballer
1983 - Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
1983 - Maggie Grace, American actress
1983 - Joseph Mazzello, American actor
1983 - Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
1985 - Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
1987 - Jimmy Clausen, American college football player
1987 - Ashley Paris, American basketball player
1990 - Allison Scagliotti, American actress
1990 - Christian Serratos, American actress
1991 - Jordan Hasay, American track & field athlete
1993 - Rizwan Khan, American reporter
1998 - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses