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September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). There are 101 days remaining.
Events
1700-1899
1745 - Battle of Prestonpans - Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point
1792 - French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy
1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which is 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.
1900-1999
1921 - Ammonium nitrate explosion at chemical storage facility in Oppau, Germany, 561 killed.
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.
1942 - B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.
1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1970 - Monday Night Football premieres.
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
1981 - Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom
1984 - Brunei gains its independence from the United Kingdom
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1999 - Taiwan experiences earthquake with magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter Scale.
2000-2099
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes
Births
up to 1699
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
1700-1899
1756 - John MacAdam, road builder (d. 1836)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)
1866 - H. G. Wells, science fiction author (d. 1946)
1873 - Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician (d. 1966)
1874 - Gustav Holst, composer (d. 1934)
1900-1999
1912 - Chuck Jones, animator (d. 2002)
1919 - Fazlur Rahman, scholar (d. 1988)
1920 - Jay Ward, animator (d. 1988)
1931 - Larry Hagman, actor
1934 - Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter
1935 - Henry Gibson, actor
1944 - Fannie Flagg, actress, novelist
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, film and television producer
1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1947 - Donald Felder, musician
1947 - Stephen King, author
1947 - Marsha Norman, playwright
1949 - Artis Gilmore, basketball star
1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician
1950 - Bill Murray, actor
1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Indianapolis 500 winner
1957 - Ethan Coen, film director
1959 - Dave Coulier, actor
1960 - David James Elliott, actor
1961 - Nancy Travis, actress
1962 - Rob Morrow, actor
1963 - Cecil Fielder, baseball player
1965 - Cheryl Hines, actress (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Father of the Pride)
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, actor
1967 - Tyler Stewart, drummer for Barenaked Ladies
1967 - Faith Hill, country singer
1968 - Ricki Lake, actress, talk show hostess
1971 - Luke Wilson, actor
1972 - Jon Kitna, American football quarterback
1975 - Doug Davis, baseball player
1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress
Deaths
1500-1899
1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French General (b. 1769)
1832 - Sir Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian
1900-1999
1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croat writer (b. 1874)
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, inventor of the cultured pearl
1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway
1974 - Jacqueline Susann, novelist
1974 - Walter Brennan, Academy Award winning actor
1987 - Jaco Pastorius, bassist (b. 1951)
1995 - Rudy Perpich, US - Croat politician (b. 1928)
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic Games track-and-field star
2000-2099
2002 - Robert L. Forward, physicist, writer
2003 - Robert Lochner, creator of Kennedy's "Ikh been oin Bear-lee-ner" ("Ich bin ein Berliner")
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (born 1939)
Holidays and observances
In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.
Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
peace one day
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