21st
September, on this day
687 Conon
ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1217 The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu
of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights.
1327 King
Edward II of England is killed with a red hot poker in the dungeon
of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, to ensure his son Edward III
could succeed to the throne
1348 Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1745
Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart) and his Jacobite army defeat
the English at the Battle
of Prestonpans
1451 Cardinal Nicholas
of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
1765 Antoine
de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast
of Gévaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
1776 Great fire in NY
1780 Benedict
Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1784 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser)
1792 During the French
Revolution, the country abolishes the monarchy and declares itself
to be a Republic
1823 Moroni
1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
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.
1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
1893 Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea
Motor Wagon Company
1896 British force under
Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
1898 In China, Tzu-hsi,
Dowager Empress of China, seizes power
1913 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed
in France
1915 Stonehenge, in England is bought at auction by Mr C.H.Chubb for
£6,600. He presents the site, containing large ancient stone
circles, to the nation in 1918
1921 Oppau
explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded
in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed.
1922 President Warren
G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a
Jewish homeland in Palestine
1930 Johann Ostermeyer patents the flashbulb
1931 Britain goes off the gold standard
1934 Superpower Muroto Typhoon hit in western Honshu, Japan, Japanese
government confirmed 3,036 killed. Mainly destroy temple, schools,
and other buildings at Osaka.
1937 J.R.R.
Tolkien, publishes "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 ultranationalist 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 Konstantynów Jews (Poland)
to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto
- established in Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby
7 towns among them: Konstantynów, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz,
Terespol, and 3 more.
1942 In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
1942 The B-29
Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed
1953 Allied forces form West Germany
1954 Nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned
1957 "Perry
Mason" with Raymond
Burr premiers on CBS-TV
1958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Tx
1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47
Chinook transportation helicopter.
1962 First transmission on British TV of the quiz programme 'University
Challenge' hosted by Bamber
Gascoigne
1964 Malta gains independence from Britain
1965 Oil company British Petroleum annouces an oil find in the North
Sea
1968 Zond
5 completes flight
1970 New York Times starts first modern
op-ed page.
1970 Luna
16 leaves the Moon
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are Dick
Cavett's only guest
1972 Marcos
declares martial law in the Philippines
1974 US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
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 and three
people were killed.
1981 Belize, originally called British Honduras, gains its independence
1984 NASA launches Galaxy-C
1985 Michael
Spinks becomes 1st light heavyweight to defeat the reigning heavyweight
champion, he defeats Larry
Holmes
1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
1989 Hurricane
Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
1991
Armenia votes on whether to remain in the 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
1998 TV networks in America broadcast President Clinton's testimony
(given on August 21,1998) explaining his involvement with White House
intern Monica
Lewinsky
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
2003 Galileo
mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere,
where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes. .
2004 Construction of the
Burj Dubai starts.
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21st
September 2005
Houston
mayor orders evacuation
Iraq
official questions UK action
Mars
'more active than suspected' |
21st
September 2006
Iraq
torture 'worse after Saddam'
Thai
leaders ban political action
Branson
makes $3bn climate pledge
21st September
2007
Chile
court extradites Fujimori
Blackwater
working again in Iraq
Two
Sistani aides killed in Iraq
21st September
2008
South
Africa president resigns
'Thousands
ill' due to China milk
Death
toll rises in Orissa floods
21st September
2009
Scores
die in south Sudan attack
Bhutan
hit by strong earthquake
US
in Afghanistan failure warning
21st September
2010
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Birthdates
which occurred on 21st September:
1415 Frederick
III Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493)
1452 Girolamo Savonarola Florentine monk/preacher/reformer
1756 John Loudon McAdam created macadam road surface (asphalt)
1788 Margaret Smith Taylor 1st lady
1849 Sir Edmund Gosse London, translator/critic (Father & Son)
1866 Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France bacteriologist (Nobel-1928)
1866 H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells Bromley, England (War of the Worlds)
1874 Gustav Holst Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets)
1884 Hugh (Shorty) Ray supervisor of NFL officials, HOF member
1886 Teiichi Igarashi Japan, climbed Mt Fuji at age 99
19-- Rebecca Balding Little Rock Ark, actress (Carla-Lou Grant, Soap)
1901 Adele Bochner
1902 Limari Salminen Finland, 10K run (Olympic-gold-1936)
1907 Lloyd Gough actor (Mike Axford-Green Hornet)
1909 Kwame Nkrumah President of Ghana (1958-66)
1912 Chuck Jones animator (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
1912 Gy”rgy S ndor Budapest Hungary, pianist (L'Apprenti Sorcier)
1914 John Kluge Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire
1918 Rand Brooks LA Calif, actor (Cpl Boone-Rin Tin Tin)
1930 Dawn Addams Felixstown Engl, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens)
1931 Larry Hagman Fort Worth Tx, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas)
1932 Melvin Van Peebles US, playwright/director (Watermelon Man)
1934 Leonard Cohen Montr‚al, singer/songwriter (Death of Ladies
Man)
1935 Henry Gibson Germantown Pa, comedian (Nashville, Laugh-In's poet)
1940 Bill Kurtis Pensacola Fla, newscaster (The American Parade)
1942 Ann Elder Cleve Oh, comedienne (Smothers Brothers Show, Laugh-In)
1944 Fannie Flagg Birmingham Ala, actress/comediene (Candid Camera)
1944 Hamilton Jordan political advisor (Crisis, Last Year of Carter
Pres)
1947 Stephen King suspense writer (Shining, Kujo)
1948 Artis Gilmore ABA all star (Kentucky Colonels)
1948 Michael Finneran diver (1st perfect 10 on 10m platform)
1950 Bill Murray Evanston Ill, comedian (SNL, What About Bob, Stripes)
1953 John Mengatti NYC, actor (Nick-White Shadow, For Love & Honor)
1955 Richard J Hieb Jamestown ND, astronaut (STS 39, Sk:STS 49)
1959 Corrinne Drewery rocker (Swing Out Sister-Swing Out)
1959 David Coulier Detroit, actor (Joey Gladstone-Full House)
1962 Grant Fuhr Edmonton Alberta, NHL goalie (Oilers)
1968 Ricki Lake actress (Hairspray)
1971 Alfonso Ribeiro NYC, actor/pianist (Alfonso-Silver Spoons)
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Deaths which occurred
on September 21st:
1327 Edward II king of England (1307-1327), dies at 43
1576 Girolamo Cardano Italian mathematician, dies at 74
1776 Nathan Hale spied on British for American rebels, hanged
1915 Anthony Comstock anti-vice crusader, dies at 71 in NYC
1956 Anastasio Somoza Nicaraguan dictator, assassinated by Roliberto
Lopez
1957 Haakon VII king of Norway, dies, Olaf succeeds him
1961 Earle Dickson inventor (band-aid), dies at 68
1973 Diana Sands actress, dies at 39
1974 Jacqueline Susann author (Valley of the Dolls), dies at 53 of
cancer
1974 Walter Brennan actor, dies at 80
1979 John McQuade actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at
73
1988 Robert Gwathmey artist, dies at 85
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