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.
- 1435 –An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years’ War.
- 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.
- 1921 –A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
- 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.
- 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 –The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
- 1961 –Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
- 1964 –Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1965 –Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
- 2001 –Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
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