About September 21
September 21, 2023 is the 264th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 142 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 21
- 1435 –An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years’ War.
- 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.
- 1896 –British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- 1898 –Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.
- 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.
- 1938 –The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
- 1942 –In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
- 1942 –On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1942 –The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
- 1961 –Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
- 1971 –Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
- 1976 –Seychelles joins the United Nations.
- 1981 –Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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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