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
- 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.
- 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
- 1939 –Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
- 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 –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.
- 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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