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
\n*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\n*1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point\n*1792 - French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy\n*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\n*1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao\n*1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan\n*1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter is published in the New York Sun\n*1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.\n*1921 - Ammonium nitrate explosion at chemical storage facility in Oppau, Germany, 561 killed.\n*1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit\n*1942 - B-29 Superfortress makes its debut\n*1950 - George Marshall was sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States\n*1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom\n*1970 - Monday Night Football premieres\n*1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issued Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.\n*1981 - Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom\n*1984 - Brunei gains its independence from the United Kingdom\n*1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.\n*1999 - Taiwan experiences earthquake with magnitude of 7.6 on the Richter Scale\n*2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly\n*2003 - Galileo probe has been mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere nucleus
Births
\n*1756 - John MacAdam, road builder (d. 1836)\n*1840 - Murat V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1904)\n*1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)\n*1866 - H. G. Wells, science fiction author (d. 1946)\n*1873 - Papa Jack Laine, jazz musician (d. 1966)\n*1874 - Gustav Holst, composer (d. 1934)\n*1906 - Aristotle Onassis, shipping tycoon (d. 1975)\n*1912 - Chuck Jones, animator (d. 2002)\n*1920 - Jay Ward, animator (d. 1988)\n*1931 - Larry Hagman, actor\n*1934 - Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter\n*1935 - Henry Gibson, actor\n*1944 - Fannie Flagg, actress, novelist\n*1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, film and television producer\n*1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, member of the Swiss Federal Council\n*1947 - Stephen King, author\n*1947 - Marsha Norman, playwright\n*1947 - Donald Felder, musician\n*1949 - Artis Gilmore, basketball star\n*1950 - Bill Murray, actor\n*1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician\n*1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Indianapolis 500 winner\n*1957 - Ethan Coen, film director\n*1959 - Dave Coulier, actor\n*1960 - David James Elliott, actor\n*1961 - Nancy Travis, actress\n*1962 - Rob Morrow, actor\n*1963 - Cecil Fielder, baseball player\n* 1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco\n*1966 - Kiefer Sutherland, actor\n*1968 - Ricki Lake, actress, talk show hostess\n*1971 - Luke Wilson, actor\n*1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress
Deaths
\n* 1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor\n* 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet\n* 1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian\n* 1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader\n* 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, inventor of the cultured pearl\n* 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway\n* 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, novelist\n* 1974 - Walter Brennan, Academy Award winning actor\n* 1995 - Rudy Perpich, US - Croatian politician (b. 1928)\n* 1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, Olympic Games track-and-field star\n* 2002 - Robert L. Forward, physicist, writer\n* 2003 - Robert Lochner, creator of Kennedy's "Ish been oin Bear-lee-ner" ("Ich bin ein Berliner")
Holidays and observances
\n*In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.\n*National Day in Belize\n*Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon\n* peace one day
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