September 21 (original) (raw)

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

Events

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 in China
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit
1942 - B-29 Superfortress makes its debut
1950 - George Marshall was 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 issued 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
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly's
2003 - Galileo probe has been mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere

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1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
1832 - Sir Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet
1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader
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
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic Games track-and-field star
2002 - Robert L. Forward, physicist, writer
2003 - Robert Lochner, creator of Kennedy's "Ish been oin Bear-lee-ner" ("Ich bin ein Berliner")

In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.
National Day in Belize
Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon