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
- 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
- 1792 –The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
- 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
- 1934 –A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
- 1937 –J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
- 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 –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.
- 1965 –Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of 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.
- 1976 –Seychelles joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 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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