About September 21
September 21, 2025 is the 264th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 149 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 21
- 1745 –Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
- 1776 –Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
- 1823 –Joseph Smith is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who told him the location of gold plates, which Smith obtained four years later and partially translated into The Book of Mormon.
- 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.
- 1921 –A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
- 1933 –Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre
- 1934 –A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
- 1942 –In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
- 1942 –In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
- 1953 –LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
- 1961 –Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
- 1964 –The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
- 1972 –Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.
- 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.
- 1993 –Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
- 1999 –Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
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