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 264th 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, 29,306,880 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 ‘dihectahexacontatetragon’ day.
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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.
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September 21 Historical Events
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
- 1823 –Joseph Smith is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who told him the location of gold plates, which Smith obtained four years later and partially translated into The Book of Mormon.
- 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.
- 1942 –In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
- 1953 –LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
- 1971 –Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.
- 1972 –Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law.
- 1991 –Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
- 2001 –Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
Who were born on September 21?
- 1863 –John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
- 1951 –Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
- 1952 –Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
- 1955 –Gulshan Grover, Indian actor
- 1970 –John Cudia, American actor
- 1971 –John Crawley, English cricketer
- 1972 –David Silveria, American drummer (KoЯn)
- 1978 –Luke Godden, Australian rules footballer
- 1980 –Aleksa Palladino, American actress
- 1980 –Robert Hoffman, American actor
Who died on September 21?
- 1798 –George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
- 1897 –Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
- 1926 –Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
- 1946 –Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1871)
- 1956 –Bill Struth, 2nd manager of Rangers FC (b. 1875)
- 1957 –King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
- 1966 –Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
- 1995 –Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
- 1997 –Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2011 –Pamela Ann Rymer, American federal appellate judge (b. 1941)
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