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- 1217 An Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights.
- 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
- 1745 Hanovarian army under the command of John Cope were surprised and overwhelmingly defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stewart in the Battle of Prestonpans
- 1765 Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gvaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
- 1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andr‚ plans to West Point
- 1784 The first daily newspaper in America is published in Philadelphia.
- 1792 The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
- 1827 According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.
- 1860 In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the battle of Baliqiao.
- 1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
- 1872 John Henry Conyers of SC becomes first black student at Annapolis
- 1893 Frank Duryea drives first US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
- 1895 The first auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
- 1896 British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- 1897 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," begins the famous editorial response to 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter in the New York Sun.
- 1897 NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
- 1897 The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter is published in the New York Sun.
- 1898 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
- 1898 Tzu-Hsi, dowager Empress of China, seizes power and revokes reforms
- 1913 The first aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
- 1915 Stones at Stonehenge, England, sold at auction for œ6,600
- 1920 Visitor posting - Leonard Griesch is Born - USA
- 1921 Gas generator explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany
- 1921 Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany, 500600 killed.
- 1922 Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
- 1930 Johann Ostermeyer patents the flashbulb
- 1931 Britain goes off the gold standard
- 1931 England goes off the gold standard.
- 1934 Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
- 1937 J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
- 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, publishes "The Hobbit"
- 1938 Hurricane (winds 183 MPH) in New England kills 700
- 1938 More than 600 people are killed as a hurricane batters New England.
- 1939 Heydrich orders ghettos established in occupied Poland, under "Judenrats".
- 1939 Visitor posting - KEITH BRENNAN BORN ON 21ST SEPT 1939 - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 1939 Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.
- 1942 In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
- 1942 On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1942 On the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynow Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghetto - established in Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynow, Janw Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more.
- 1942 The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
- 1945 Visitor posting - william kruse vietnam vet and proud american was born - USA
- 1948 "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV
- 1948 Comedian Milton Berle is named as permanent host of The Texaco Star Theater on NBC-TV.
- 1949 China's Communist leaders officially declare the country as The People's Republic of China.
- 1950 George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
- 1950 Visitor posting - Frank Marion Bright was born Sept.21,1950
- 1952 Visitor posting - Becky Moochie born - USA
- 1953 Allied forces form West Germany
- 1954 Nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned
- 1957 Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr as Erle Stanley Gardner's persistent attorney, debuts on CBS-TV.
- 1957 Visitor posting - Susan Lynn Thorvick is born - USA
- 1961 Antonio Abertondo swims the English Channel, both ways, in 24 hours, 25 minutes.
- 1961 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Shirley Bassey - Reach For The Stars / Climb Ev'ry Mountain
- 1963 Visitor posting - Debra Velasco is born. - USA
- 1963 Visitor posting - Lisa Soldatis is born - USA
- 1964 Constellation (US) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup
- 1964 Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1964 Malta gains independence from Britain
- 1964 The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
- 1965 O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest paracute jump (46,250')
- 1965 Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
- 1966 5" of rain falls on NYC
- 1970 "Monday Night Football" on ABC premiers (Browns beat Jets 31-21)
- 1970 Luna 16 leaves the Moon
- 1970 Monday Night Football, with Howard Cosell, Don Meredith and Keith Jackson calling the plays, makes its debut on ABC-TV.
- 1970 New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
- 1970 The Cleveland Browns beat the New York Jets at Cleveland Municipal Stadium 31-20 on the first edition of Monday Night Football.
- 1971 Visitor posting - Ricardo Perez was born - USA
- 1972 Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines
- 1973 Dr. Henry Kissinger is confirmed by the US Senate as Secretary of State.
- 1974 Jacqueline Susann author of Valley of the Dolls, dies at 53 of cancer
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
- 1974 US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
- 1974 Walter Brennan actor, dies at 80
- 1975 Thirteen die in coalmine gas explosion at Mt Kianga-Moura, Queensland.
- 1976 Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
- 1977 Visitor posting - Shannon EWliza Dashnaw Booth was born to Charles N. and Dorinda F. Dashnaw in New York State - USA
- 1978 Visitor posting - steven hamilton born - United Kingdom
- 1978 Visitor posting - Jon Michael "Johnnywad" Robich born - USA [email protected]
- 1979 Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident - including a mother and her baby - and three people were killed.
- 1980 Visitor posting - Philip Manes is born - USA
- 1981 Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1981 Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor is confirmed by the US Senate as the first female Supreme Court Justice.
- 1982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
- 1982 STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1984 NASA launches Galaxy-C
- 1985 Michael Spinks becomes first light heavyweight to defeat the reigning heavyweight champion, he defeats Larry Holmes
- 1987 Visitor posting - Jennifer Valle was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala
- 1988 Mike Tyson threatens a TV reporter in NJ
- 1989 Hurricane Hugo bashes Charleston, SC, with winds of up to 135 miles per hour, causing an estimated $8 billion in damage.
- 1989 Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
- 1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
- 1989 Visitor posting - Nicole born - USA
- 1990 Visitor posting - September 21 1990 Chris Palkowski was born
- 1991 Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
- 1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
- 1992 Visitor posting - Kallan "Mr.Awsome" Murdoch is born - Canada
- 1993 Visitor posting - Jason Hyndman was born
- 1994 Visitor posting - Lauren Alexis Hampton was born. - United States
- 1995 The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
- 1996 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island, GA.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Carter Campbell is born!
- 1997 A volcanic avalanche buries Montserrat's airport and flows into the Atlantic Ocean 5.5km away.
- 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
- 2001 AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
- 2001 Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
- 2001 University of Roorkee, becomes India's 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee
- 2003 Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
- 2004 Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Ashleigh and Jimmy start dating in the USA on September 21 2009
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