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September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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.
• 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
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• 1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
• 1827 – Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
• 1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
• 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.
• 1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
• 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.
• 1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
• 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
• 1942 – At the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynów Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto – established in Biała Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynów, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more.
• 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.
• 1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
• 1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
• 1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
• 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
• 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.
• 1989 – Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
• 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.
• 2001 – AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 31 people
• 2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
• 2004 – 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).
• 2004 – Construction of the Burj Khalifa begins.
• 2008 – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
• 2009 – Chennai - New Delhi Duronto service inaugurated

Births

• 1051 – Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
• 1328 – Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
• 1411 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
• 1415 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
• 1428 – Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
• 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
• 1559 – Cigoli, Florentine painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1613)
• 1629 – Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
• 1645 – Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
• 1706 – Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
• 1756 – John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
• 1758 – Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
• 1760 – Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
• 1819 – Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
• 1839 – Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist (d. 1897)
• 1840 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
• 1842 – Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
• 1849 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
• 1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
• 1859 – Francesc Macià i Llussà, Catalan politician (d. 1933)
• 1862 – James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933)
• 1863 – John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
• 1866 – H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
• 1866 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
• 1873 – Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
• 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
• 1896 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian
• 1899 – Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
• 1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
• 1902 – Sir Allen Lane, British founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
• 1905 – Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
• 1906 – Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
• 1909 – Kwame Nkrumah, 1st President of Ghana (d. 1972)
• 1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
• 1912 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1918 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
• 1919 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
• 1924 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
• 1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
• 1929 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor
• 1933 – Dick Simon, American racing driver
• 1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1935 – Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager
• 1935 – Henry Gibson, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
• 1936 – Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
• 1936 – Diane Rehm, American radio talk show host for National Public Radio
• 1938 – Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
• 1940 – Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian civil engineer
• 1940 – Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
• 1941 – Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
• 1941 – R. James Woolsey, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency director
• 1944 – Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
• 1944 – Hamilton Jordan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's original chief of staff (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
• 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
• 1945 – Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
• 1945 – Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
• 1946 – Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1947 – Stephen King, American author
• 1947 – Marsha Norman, American playwright
• 1947 – Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
• 1949 – Artis Gilmore, American basketball player
• 1950 – Charles Clarke, British politician
• 1950 – Bill Murray, American comedian and actor
• 1951 – Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
• 1951 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
• 1952 – Dave Gregory, English guitar and keyboard player (XTC)
• 1952 – Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
• 1953 – Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
• 1954 – Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
• 1954 – Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motörhead)
• 1955 – Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
• 1955 – Richard Hieb, American astronaut
• 1956 – Jack Givens, American basketball player
• 1956 – Marta Kauffman, American television producer
• 1956 – Ricky Morton, American professional wrestler
• 1957 – Ethan Coen, American film director
• 1957 – Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
• 1957 – Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1957 – Penny Smith, English television presenter
• 1958 – Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player
• 1958 – Rick Mahorn, American basketball player
• 1959 – Dave Coulier, American actor
• 1959 – Danny Cox, American baseball player
• 1959 – Corinne Drewery, British singer (Swing Out Sister)
• 1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor
• 1961 – Nancy Travis, American actress
• 1962 – Rob Morrow, American actor
• 1963 – Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
• 1963 – Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
• 1963 – Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
• 1964 – Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer and composer
• 1965 – Cheryl Hines, American actress
• 1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor
• 1965 – Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Finnish film director
• 1967 – Glen Benton, American musician (Deicide)
• 1967 – Faith Hill, American singer
• 1967 – Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1968 – Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
• 1969 – Jason Christiansen, American baseball player
• 1970 – John Cudia, American actor
• 1971 – John Crawley, English cricketer
• 1971 – Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor
• 1971 – Luke Wilson, American actor
• 1972 – Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
• 1972 – Jon Kitna, American football player
• 1972 – David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
• 1972 – Scott Spiezio, American baseball player
• 1973 – Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist
• 1973 – Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
• 1974 – Bryce Drew, American basketball player
• 1974 – Taral Hicks, American musician
• 1974 – Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
• 1974 – Andy Todd, English footballer
• 1975 – Doug Davis, American baseball player
• 1976 – Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
• 1976 – Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
• 1977 – Brian Tallet, American baseball player
• 1978 – Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1978 – Luke Godden, Australian rules footballer
• 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
• 1979 – Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
• 1979 – Julian Gray, English footballer
• 1979 – Jaymee Ong, Chinese-Australian model
• 1979 – James Allan, Scottish singer (Glasvegas)
• 1980 – Robert Hoffman, American actor
• 1980 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1980 – Nyree Lewis, British Paralympic swimmer
• 1980 – Aleksa Palladino, American actress
• 1980 – Autumn Reeser, American actress
• 1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
• 1981 – Nicole Richie, American socialite
• 1981 – Rimi Sen, Indian actress
• 1981 – Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
• 1982 – Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
• 1982 – Danny Kass, American snowboarder
• 1982 – Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Parvati Shallow, American reality show contestant
• 1982 – Christos Tapoutos, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Rowan Vine, English footballer
• 1983 – Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Maggie Grace, American actress
• 1983 – Joseph Mazzello, American actor
• 1983 – Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
• 1984 – Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
• 1985 – Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
• 1987 – Jimmy Clausen, American football player
• 1987 – Ashley Paris, American basketball player
• 1987 – Courtney Paris, American basketball player
• 1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
• 1989 – Jason Derulo, American Pop singer
• 1990 – Christian Serratos, American actress, model and singer

Deaths

• 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
• 454 – Aëtius, Roman general (b. c.396)
• 1217 – Caupo of Turaida, Livonian military leader
• 1217 – Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian military leader
• 1327 – King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
• 1397 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
• 1542 – Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
• 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
• 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
• 1586 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
• 1626 – François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
• 1719 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• 1743 – Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
• 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
• 1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
• 1832 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
• 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
• 1897 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
• 1904 – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
• 1906 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
• 1938 – Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Armand Călinescu, Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
• 1944 – Artur Phleps, German Waffen-SS officer (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1871)
• 1948 – Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
• 1954 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
• 1957 – King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
• 1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
• 1976 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
• 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
• 1988 – Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1995 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
• 2000 – Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
• 2002 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek writer (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

• International Day of Peace
• Roman Catholic Saints – Matthew the Evangelist
• The Nativity of the Theotokos in Russia. Also see September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
• Mabon – Neopagan festival of Mabon
• In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells (born 21 September 1866)

• selected by Kalki

2005

Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ "Andy Dufresne" in The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (born 21 September 1947)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
~ Leonard Cohen ~ (born 21 September 1934)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the scret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. ~ H. G. Wells

• proposed by Kalki

2008

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens,
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
~ Leonard Cohen ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Ah, you loved me as a loser,
But now you're worried that I just might win.
You know the way to stop me,
But you don't have the discipline.
How many nights I prayed for this,
To let my work begin.
First we take Manhattan,
Then we take Berlin.

~ Leonard Cohen ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and desposable. ~ (Miss White, Clue)

• 5 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.
• 1 Unpithy, no humor even harmful. And who is it? --Aphaia 08:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

No one would have believed... that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

What it is to bathe every day, always to be clad beautifully, to climb mountains for pleasure, to fly, to meet none but agreeable, well mannered people, to conduct researches or make delightful things... a time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ~ H. G. Wells (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. ~ Stephen King (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward a 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Aphaia 08:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. ~ Stephen King (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward a 4.
• 4 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm tired of people bein' ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein' in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I cain't. ~ "John Coffey" in The Green Mile by Stephen King (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 19:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
• 1 because there are better quotes from the Green Mile, and I seriously love that movie very strongly. Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ~ Henry L. Stimson

• 2 Zarbon 15:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:13, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

If you're squeezed for information,
that's when you've got to play it dumb:
You just say you're out there waiting
for the miracle to come.
~ Leonard Cohen ~

• 3 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
~ Leonard Cohen ~

• 3 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward an eventual 4, but not this year, and there are several others by Cohen and Stephen King I might continue to prefer to use first.

I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth except to say it isn't worth a dime~ Leonard Cohen

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September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aëtius in his own throne room.
• 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
• 1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• 1792 - The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
• 1827 - According to Joseph Smith, 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.
• 1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
• 1897 - The "Yes" letter is published in the New York Sun.
• 1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
• 1921 - Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed.
• 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.
• 1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.
• 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, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more.
• 1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
• 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
• 1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
• 1961 - Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
• 1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale.
• 1965 - Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
• 1970 - The Cleveland Browns beat the New York Jets at Cleveland Municipal Stadium 31-20 on the first edition of Monday Night Football.
• 1970 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
• 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1989 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
• 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.
• 1995 - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
• 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.
• 2001 - AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
• 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 - 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.
• 2004 - Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.

Births

• 1051 - Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
• 1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
• 1411 - Richard Plantagenet, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
• 1415 - Frederick III (d. 1493)
• 1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
• 1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
• 1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
• 1645 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
• 1706 - Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
• 1756 - John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
• 1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
• 1819 - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
• 1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
• 1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
• 1849 - Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
• 1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
• 1863 - John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
• 1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
• 1866 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
• 1873 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
• 1874 - Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
• 1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
• 1902 - Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
• 1902 - Sir Allen Lane, British founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
• 1905 - Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
• 1906 - Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
• 1912 - Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
• 1912 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist, writer and politician (d. 2003)
• 1917 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1918 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
• 1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
• 1919 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
• 1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 - Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
• 1929 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
• 1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor
• 1933 - Dick Simon, American racing driver
• 1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1935 - Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
• 1935 - Henry Gibson, American actor
• 1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
• 1936 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
• 1938 - Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
• 1940 - Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
• 1941 - R. James Woolsey, Central Intelligence Agency director
• 1941 - Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
• 1944 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
• 1944 - Hamilton Jordan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's original chief of staff
• 1944 - Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
• 1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
• 1945 - Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
• 1945 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
• 1946 - Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1947 - Stephen King, American author
• 1947 - Marsha Norman, American playwright
• 1947 - Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
• 1949 - Artis Gilmore, American basketball player
• 1950 - Charles Clarke, British politician
• 1950 - Bill Murray, American actor
• 1951 - Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
• 1951 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005])
• 1952 - Anneliese Michel, Exorcism victim, known from the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose (d. 1976)
• 1953 - Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
• 1954 - Shinzo Abe, Former Prime Minister of Japan
• 1954 - Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, British musician (Motörhead)
• 1955 - Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
• 1955 - Richard Hieb, American astronaut
• 1956 - Jack Givens, American basketball player
• 1956 - Marta Kauffman, American television producer
• 1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
• 1957 - Kevin Rudd, Australian Labor Party leader
• 1957 - Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
• 1958 - Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player
• 1959 - Dave Coulier, American actor
• 1959 - Danny Cox, baseball player
• 1959 - Corinne Drewery, British singer (Swing Out Sister)
• 1960 - David James Elliott, Canadian actor
• 1961 - Húbert Nói, Icelandic artist
• 1961 - Nancy Travis, American actress
• 1962 - Rob Morrow, American actor
• 1963 - Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
• 1963 - Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
• 1963 - Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
• 1965 - Cheryl Hines, American actress
• 1965 - David Wenham, Australian actor
• 1967 - Faith Hill, American singer
• 1967 - Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
• 1968 - Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
• 1969 - Jason Christiansen, baseball player
• 1970 - John Cudia, American actor
• 1971 - John Crawley, English cricketer
• 1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro, Dominican-born actor
• 1971 - Luke Wilson, American actor
• 1972 - Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
• 1972 - Jon Kitna, American football player
• 1972 - David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
• 1973 - Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
• 1974 - Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
• 1974 - Andy Todd, English footballer
• 1975 - Doug Davis, American baseball player
• 1976 - Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
• 1976 - Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
• 1977 - Brian Tallet, American baseball player
• 1978 - Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1979 - Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
• 1979 - Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
• 1979 - Julian Gray, English footballer
• 1980 - Robert Hoffman, American actor
• 1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1980 - Aleksa Palladino, American actress
• 1980 - Autumn Reeser, American actress
• 1980 - Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
• 1981 - Nicole Richie, American socialite
• 1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
• 1982 - Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
• 1982 - Danny Kass, American snowboarder
• 1982 - Rowan Vine, English footballer
• 1983 - Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 - Maggie Grace, American actress
• 1983 - Joseph Mazzello, American actor
• 1983 - Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
• 1985 - Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
• 1987 - Jimmy Clausen, American college football player
• 1987 - Ashley Paris, American basketball player
• 1987 - Courtney Paris, American basketball player
• 1990 - Allison Scagliotti, American actress
• 1990 - Christian Serratos, American actress
• 1991 - Jordan Hasay, American track & field athlete
• 1991 - Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress
• 1998 - Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses

Deaths

• 19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
• 454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)
• 1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
• 1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
• 1397 - Richard FitzAlan, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
• 1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
• 1558 - Charles V (b. 1500)
• 1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
• 1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
• 1626 - François de Bonne, Constable of France (b. 1543)
• 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• 1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
• 1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
• 1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
• 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
• 1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
• 1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
• 1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
• 1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
• 1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
• 1939 - Armand Călinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
• 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
• 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
• 1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
• 1966 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
• 1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
• 1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
• 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
• 1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
• 1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
• 1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
• 1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
• 1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
• 2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
• 2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
• 2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
• 2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
• 2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
• 2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
• 2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

• International Day of Peace
• International Day against Alzheimer's disease
• International Banana Festival
• Day of the trees in Brazil
• RC Saints - Matthew the Evangelist
• The Nativity of the Theotokos in Russia. Also see September 21
• Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
• Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
• In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begin
• In 2007, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins at sunset
• Spring Day in Argentina
• First light of the year in the Arctic

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada