About September 21
September 21, 2024 is the 265th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 130 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 21
- 1217 –Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew’s Day.
- 1776 –Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
- 1860 –In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
- 1896 –British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- 1897 –The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial is published in the New York Sun.
- 1933 –Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre
- 1937 –J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
- 1964 –Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 –The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
- 1971 –Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
- 1972 –Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.
- 1976 –Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
- 1981 –Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981 –Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
- 1984 –Brunei joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 2001 –America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the September 11 attack victims.
- 2001 –Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
- 2003 –Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
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