September 21st Events |
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| September 21st, 2004 (September 21 2004) | Event | The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People s War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist). | |
| September 21st, 2004 (September 21 2004) | Event | Construction of the Burj Dubai starts. | |
| September 21st, 2003 (September 21 2003) | Event | Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes. | |
| September 21st, 2001 (September 21 2001) | Event | Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly. | |
| September 21st, 2001 (September 21 2001) | Event | AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people | |
| September 21st, 2001 (September 21 2001) | Event | University of Roorkee, becomes India s 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee | |
| September 21st, 1999 (September 21 1999) | Event | Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead. | |
| September 21st, 1995 (September 21 1995) | Event | The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths. | |
| September 21st, 1993 (September 21 1993) | Event | Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
| September 21st, 1991 (September 21 1991) | Event | Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union. | |
| September 21st, 1989 (September 21 1989) | Event | Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina. | |
| September 21st, 1981 (September 21 1981) | Event | Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom. | |
| September 21st, 1981 (September 21 1981) | Event | Sandra Day O Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice. | |
| September 21st, 1979 (September 21 1979) | Event | 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 accidentincluding a mother and her babyand three people were killed. | |
| September 21st, 1976 (September 21 1976) | Event | 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. | |
| September 21st, 1972 (September 21 1972) | Event | Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law. | Martial Quotes |
| September 21st, 1970 (September 21 1970) | Event | The Cleveland Browns beat the New York Jets at Cleveland Municipal Stadium 31-20 on the first edition of Monday Night Football. | |
| September 21st, 1970 (September 21 1970) | Event | New York Times starts first modern op-ed page. | |
| September 21st, 1965 (September 21 1965) | Event | Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations. | |
| September 21st, 1964 (September 21 1964) | Event | Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom. | |
| September 21st, 1964 (September 21 1964) | Event | The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world s first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. | |
| September 21st, 1961 (September 21 1961) | Event | Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter. | |
| September 21st, 1950 (September 21 1950) | Event | George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States. | |
| September 21st, 1942 (September 21 1942) | Event | On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp. | |
| September 21st, 1942 (September 21 1942) | Event | On the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynow Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynow and move to the Ghettoestablished in Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynow, Janow Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more. | |
| September 21st, 1942 (September 21 1942) | Event | In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews. | |
| September 21st, 1942 (September 21 1942) | Event | The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. | |
| September 21st, 1939 (September 21 1939) | Event | Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard. | |
| September 21st, 1938 (September 21 1938) | Event | The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people. | |
| September 21st, 1937 (September 21 1937) | Event | J. R. R. Tolkien s The Hobbit is published. | J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes |
| September 21st, 1934 (September 21 1934) | Event | Superpower Muroto Typhoon hit in western Honshu, Japan, Japanese government confirmed 3,036 killedied in Mainly destroy temple, schools, and other buildings at Osaka. | |
| September 21st, 1921 (September 21 1921) | Event | Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany, 500-600 killed. | |
| September 21st, 1898 (September 21 1898) | Event | Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days Reform in China. | |
| September 21st, 1897 (September 21 1897) | Event | The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter is published in the New York Sun. | |
| September 21st, 1896 (September 21 1896) | Event | British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan. | |
| September 21st, 1860 (September 21 1860) | Event | In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao. | |
| September 21st, 1827 (September 21 1827) | Event | 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. | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| September 21st, 1792 (September 21 1792) | Event | The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy. | |
| September 21st, 1780 (September 21 1780) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point. | |
| September 21st, 1765 (September 21 1765) | Event | Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gevaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks. | |
| September 21st, 1745 (September 21 1745) | Event | 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 | |
| September 21st, 1217 (September 21 1217) | Event | The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. | |
| September 21st, 0454 (September 21 0454) | Event | Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aetius in his own throne room. | |
