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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 8, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,781,280 minutes 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 ‘dihectahexacontapentagon’ 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 130 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 4,292 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 21 Historical Events
- 1217 –Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew’s Day.
- 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.
- 1896 –British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- 1937 –J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on September 21?
- 1895 –Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
- 1929 –Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
- 1939 –Agnivesh, Indian social activist
- 1955 –Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
- 1969 –Curtis Leschyshyn, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 –Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor
- 1974 –Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
- 1978 –Mario Miranda, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1982 –Rowan Vine, English footballer
- 1984 –Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
Who died on September 21?
- 1586 –Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
- 1719 –Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
- 1954 –Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
- 1957 –King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
- 1974 –Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
- 1982 –Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
- 1990 –Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
- 1995 –Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2006 –Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek writer (b. 1913)
- 2007 –Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)
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