September 21
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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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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
- 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 nucleus
Births
- 1756 - John MacAdam, road builder
- 1840 - Murat V, future Ottoman sultan
- 1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, future Ottoman sultan
- 1866 - H. G. Wells, science fiction author († 1946)
- 1874 - Gustav Holst, composer
- 1912 - Chuck Jones, animator († 2002)
- 1920 - Jay Ward, animator († 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
- 1947 - Stephen King, author
- 1947 - Marsha Norman, playwright
- 1947 - Donald Felder, musician
- 1949 - Artis Gilmore, basketball star
- 1950 - Bill Murray, actor
- 1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician
- 1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Indianapolis 500 winner
- 1957 - Ethan Coen, film director
- 1960 - David James Elliott, actor
- 1961 - Nancy Travis, actress
- 1962 - Rob Morrow, actor
- 1963 - King Mohamed VI of Morocco
- 1968 - Ricki Lake, actress, talk show hostess
- 1971 - Luke Wilson, actor
Deaths
- 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
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.
- National Day in Belize
- Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
September 20 � September 22 � August 21 � October 21 � more historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries
References
- Adapted from the Wikpedia article, "September 21" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_21 September 21, 2003
