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.
- 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.
- 1792 –The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
- 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.
- 1897 –The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial is published in the New York Sun.
- 1934 –A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
- 1937 –J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
- 1939 –Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
- 1942 –On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- 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.
- 1972 –Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.
- 1976 –Seychelles joins the United Nations.
- 1984 –Brunei joins the United Nations.
- 1999 –Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
- 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.
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