What are the important events that happened on September 21? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 21: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 21 is the 264^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 8, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,448 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontatetragon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,657 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 21 Historical Events

• 1435 –
  An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years’ War.
• 1896 –
  British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
• 1898 –
  Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.
• 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 –
  The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
• 1965 –
  Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
• 1981 –
  Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
• 1999 –
  Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.

Who were born on September 21?

• 1760 –
  Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
• 1899 –
  Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
• 1903 –
  Preston Tucker, American automobile designer (d. 1956)
• 1917 –
  Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
• 1936 –
  Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
• 1944 –
  Bobby Tench, British vocalist and guitarist
• 1955 –
  Gulshan Grover, Indian actor
• 1974 –
  Bryce Drew, American basketball player
• 1987 –
  Ashley Paris, American basketball player
• 1989 –
  Jason Derulo, American pop singer

Who died on September 21?

• 1217 –
  Caupo of Turaida, Livonian military leader
• 1719 –
  Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• 1938 –
  Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (b. 1874)
• 1944 –
  Artur Phleps, German Waffen-SS officer (b. 1881)
• 1962 –
  Bo Carter, American blues musician (b. 1892)
• 1974 –
  Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
• 1976 –
  Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
• 1985 –
  Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
• 1990 –
  Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2007 –
  Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)