'''September_21''' is the 264th day of the year (265th in Leap_years). There are 101 days remaining.
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==Events==
* 454 - Roman_Emperor Valentinian_III assassinates Aëtius in his own throne room.
*1745 - Battle_of_Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of John_Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles_Edward_Stuart
*1765 - Antoine_de_Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast_of_Gévaudan.
*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 - 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.
*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.
*1939 - Romanian Prime_Minister Armand_Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron_Guard.
*1942 - The 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 is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
*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.
*1993 - Grunge_rock band Nirvana releases its album ''In Utero''.
*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.
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*2002 - International Day of Peace recognized by the United_Nations as a full day of Ceasefire and Nonviolence.
*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 - Punk_rock band Green_Day releases its critically acclaimed album ''American Idiot''.
==Births==
*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)
*1756 - John_MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
*1840 - Murad_V, Ottoman_Sultan (d. 1904)
*1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid_II, Ottoman_Sultan (d. 1918)
*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)
*1902 - Luis_Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
*1912 - Chuck_Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
*1919 - Mario_Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
*1919 - Fazlur_Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
*1920 - Jay_Ward, American animator (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
*1934 - Leonard_Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
*1935 - Henry_Gibson, American actor
*1944 - Fannie_Flagg, American actress and novelist
*1944 - Hamilton_Jordan, Carter's 1ST Chief of Staff
*1945 - Jerry_Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
*1946 - Moritz_Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
*1947 - Stephen_King, American author
*1947 - Marsha_Norman, American playwright
*1949 - Artis_Gilmore, American basketball player
*1950 - Charles_Clarke, British politician
*1950 - Bill_Murray, American actor
*1951 - Aslan_Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader
*1952 - Neil_Peart, Canadian drummer (Rush)
*1953 - Arie_Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
*1954 - Shinzo_Abe, Japanese politician
*1955 - Mika_Kaurismäki, Finnish director
*1957 - Ethan_Coen, American film director
*1959 - Dave_Coulier, American actor
*1960 - David_James_Elliott, Canadian actor
*1961 - Nancy_Travis, American actress
*1962 - Rob_Morrow, American actor
*1963 - Angus_Macfadyen, Scottish actor
*1963 - Curtly_Ambrose, West Indian cricketer
*1963 - Cecil_Fielder, baseball player
*1965 - Cheryl_Hines, American actress
*1967 - Faith_Hill, American singer
*1967 - Tyler_Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked_Ladies)
*1968 - Ricki_Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
*1971 - Luke_Wilson, American actor
*1971 - Alfonso_Ribeiro, Dominican-born actor
*1972 - Liam_Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)
*1972 - Jon_Kitna, American football player
*1972 - David_Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
*1974 - Andy_Todd, English footballer
*1975 - Doug_Davis, baseball player
*1979 - Richard_Dunne, Irish footballer
*1979 - Chris_Gayle, West Indian cricketer
*1979 - Julian_Gray, English footballer
*1980 - Kareena_Kapoor, Indian actress
*1981 - Nicole_Richie, American actress
*1983 - Maggie_Grace, American actress
*1983 - Hart_Hancock, American musician (Amphoteric)
== Deaths ==
*454 - Aëtius, Roman general
*1217 - Lembitu_of_Lehola, Estonian soldier
*1327 - King Edward_II_of_England (b. 1284)
*1397 - Richard_FitzAlan,_11th_Earl_of_Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
*1542 - Juan_Boscán_Almogáver, Spanish poet
*1558 - Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor (b. 1500)
*1576 - Gerolamo_Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
*1586 - Antoine_Perrenot_de_Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
*1626 - François_de_Bonne,_duc_de_Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
*1719 - Johann_Heinrich_Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
*1743 - Jai_Singh_II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
*1748 - John_Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
*1796 - François_Séverin_Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
*1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
*1832 - Sir_Walter_Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
*1860 - Arthur_Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
*1897 - Wilhelm_Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
*1904 - Chief_Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
*1926 - Leon_Charles_Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
*1938 - Ivana_Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
*1954 - Kokichi_Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
*1957 - King Haakon_VII_of_Norway (b. 1872)
*1971 - Bernardo_Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
*1974 - Walter_Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
*1974 - Jacqueline_Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
*1987 - Jaco_Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
*1995 - Rudy_Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
*1998 - Florence_Griffith_Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
*2002 - Robert_L._Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
*2004 - Barry_Noble_Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
==Holidays and observances==
===International===
*International_Day_of_Peace of the United_Nations, as propagated by Peace_One_Day
*RC Saints - Matthew_the_Evangelist
Also see September_21_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
===National===
*Independence_Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
*Philippines - Thanksgiving Day
*Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
*In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian_Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.
== External links ==
* BBC: On This Day
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