On this day in History - Sep 21

19 AC -Publio Virgilio Marón, dies. Poet.

0454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aetius in his own throne room.
0454 - Aetius dies. Roman general
0687 - Papa Cónon dies
1217 - Lembitu of Lehola dies. Estonian soldier.
1235 - André II of Hungary dies (b. 1175)

1327 - Edward II of England dies murdered by order of his wife (b. 1284)
1411 - Ricardo, Duque de York was born († 1411). Protagonist of the War of the Roses
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor was born in Innsbruck, Austria († 1493)

1452 - Girolamo Savonarola was born (d. 1498). Dominican priest and ruler of Florence.
1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver dies. Spanish poet

1551 - Fundação da Universidade do México, a primeira do Novo Mundo.

1558 - Charles V, dies. King of Spain (Carlos I), Holy Roman Emperor.

1561 - Um devastador incendio destrói grande parte da cidade de Valladolid (Espanha).

1576 - Gerolamo Cardano dies (b. 1501). Italian mathematician.
1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle dies (b. 1517). French church leader.
1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières dies (b. 1543). Constable of France.
1629 - Philip Cardinal Howard was born (d. 1694). English Catholic Cardinal.
1640 - Philippe I, Duc d'Orléans was born (d. 1701). Younger brother of Louis XIV of France.
1645 - Louis Joliet was born (d. 1700). Canadian explorer.
1667 - Nascia Dom Frei Bartolomeu do Pilar († 1773). Ordem das Carmelitas, 1º Bispo do Pará.
1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker dies (b. 1647). German writer.
1743 - Jai Singh II dies (b. 1688). King of Amber-Juiper.
1745 - Battle of Prestonpans - Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1748 - John Balguy dies (b. 1686). English philosopher.
1756 - John MacAdam was born (d. 1836). Scottish engineer and road-builder.

1761 - King George III of England was crowned.
1765 - Monsieur Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point
1792 - French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers dies (b. 1769). French general.
1827 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which is translated into The Book of Mormon.

1831 - O Papa reconhece D. Miguel como rei de Portugal.
1832 - Sir Walter Scott dies (b. 1771). Scottish writer (Ivanhoe ; Rob Roy).
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan was born (d. 1904)
1842 - Abd-ul-Hamid II was born (d. 1918). Ottoman Sultan.
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was born (d. 1926). Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1913.
1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao

1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer dies (b. 1778). German philosopher.
1863 - John Bunny was born (d. 1915). American film comedian.
1866 - H. G. Wells was born (d. 1946). English writer.
1866 - Charles Nicolle was born (d. 1936). French bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1928.

1873 - Papa Jack Laine was born (d. 1966). American musician.
1874 - Gustav Holst was born (d. 1934). English composer.

1880 - Manuel Montt Torres dies. President of Chile.
1886 - Nasce Teichi Igarashi ( † 1787). Japonês que escalou o Mt Fuji aos 99 anos.

1895 - Juan de la Cierva was born. Aeronautical engineer who invented the autogyro.

1897 - The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter is published in the New York Sun.
1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach dies (b. 1819). German historian.
1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
1902 - Luis Cernuda was born (d. 1963). Spanish poet.
1904 - Chief Joseph dies (b. 1840). Nez Perce leader.

1908 - Pablo Sarasate dies. Violininst.
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah was born 1911 († 1972). Gana politician, founder of Pan-Africanism

1911 - Nascimento em Lisboa do actor Francisco Lopes Ribeiro, «Ribeirinho»

1912 - Chuck Jones was born (d. 2002). American animator and director of Warner Brothers cartoons Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
1915 - As pedras de Stonehange, na Inglaterra, são vendidas em leilão por £ 6,600 .

1917 - A Letónia proclama a sua independência.
1919 - Mario Bunge was born. Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 - Fazlur Rahman was born (d. 1988). Pakistani scholar.
1920 - Jay Ward was born (d. 1988). American animator.
1921 - Ammonium nitrate explosion at chemical storage facility in Oppau, Germany, 561 killed.
1926 - Donald A. Glaser was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1926 - Eliana Macedo was born († 1990). Brazilian actress.
1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin dies (b. 1857). French telegraph engineer.
1929 - Bernard Williams was born (d. 2003). English philosopher.
1931 - Larry Hagman was born. American actor (Dallas - JR)
1934 - Rogério Fróes was born. Brazilian actor
1935 - Norma Bengell was born. Brazilian actress and film director.
1934 - Leonard Cohen was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
1935 - Henry Gibson was born. American actor.
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.
1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic dies (b. 1874). Croatian writer.
1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.
1942 - B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.

1942 - Nascia, António Pacheco de Sousa Franco, professor universitário e jurista português.
1944 - Fannie Flagg was born. American actress and novelist
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer was born. American film and television producer
1946 - Moritz Leuenberger was born. Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 - Stephen King was born. American author
1947 - Marsha Norman was born. American playwright
1948 - Don Felder was born. Guitarist and vocalist of the group The Eagles
1949 - Artis Gilmore was born. American basketball player
1949 - Independência de Taiwan.
1950 - Charles Clarke was born. British politician
1950 - Bill Murray was born. American actor.
1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States
1951 - Aslan Maskhadov was born. Chechen rebel leader
1952 - Neil Peart was born. Canadian drummer (Rush)
1953 - Arie Luyendyk was born. Dutch race car driver.
1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto dies (b. 1858). Japanese inventor.
1955 - Mika Kaurismäki was born. Finnish director

1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, was assassinated by Roliberto Lopez.
1957 - Ethan Coen was born. American film director.
1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway dies (b. 1872).
1959 - Dave Coulier was born. American actor
1960 - David James Elliott was born. Canadian actor
1961 - Nancy Travis was born. American actress
1962 - Rob Morrow was born. American actor
1963 - Cecil Fielder was born. Baseball player
1963 - Curtly Ambrose was born. West Indian cricketer.
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom

1964 - Jorge Drexler was born. Uruguyan musician.
1965 - Cheryl Hines was born. American actress
1965 - Singapura, Gâmbia e Ilhas Maldivas são admitidas como Estados-Membros da ONU
1967 - Tyler Stewart was born. Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1967 - Faith Hill was born. American singer
1968 - Ricki Lake was born. American actress and talk show hostess
1970 - Monday Night Football premieres.
1971 - Bahrein, Butão e Qatar são admitidos como Estados-Membros da ONU
1971 - Luke Wilson was born. American actor
1971 - Alfonso Ribeiro was born. Dominican-born actor.
1971 - Bernardo Houssay dies (b. 1887). Argentinian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1947.
1972 - Jon Kitna was born. American football player
1972 - David Silveria was born. American drummer (KoЯn)
1972 - Liam Gallagher was born. British singer (Oasis)
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.

1973 - Daniel Guzmán was born. Spanish actor and film director.
1974 - A Sonda Mariner 10 passa pela segunda vez perto do planeta Mercúrio
1974 - Jacqueline Susann dies (b. 1918). American novelist (Valley of the Dolls).
1974 - Walter Brennan dies (b. 1894). American actor.
1975 - Doug Davis was born. baseball player
1975 - Nasce Acelino Freitas, o Popó. Pugilista brasileiro
1976 - As Ilhas Seychelles são admitidas como Estado-Membro da ONU
1979 - Chris Gayle was born. West Indian cricketer
1980 - Kareena Kapoor was born. Indian actress
1981 - Nicole Richie was born. American actress.
1981 - Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1983 - Maggie Grace was born. American actress
1983 - Hart Hancock, American musician (Amphoteric
1984 - Brunei é admitidos como Estado-Membro da ONU

1985 - Xavier Zubiri dies. Spanish philosopher.

1986 - In the 38th Emmy Awards the winners included Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey and Michael J. Fox
1987 - Jaco Pastorius dies (b. 1951). American bassist

1988 - Morre Arminda Correia (n. 1903). Cantora lírica portuguesa.
1991 - Armenia granted independence from Soviet Union.
1992 - Um terremoto de 7.7 graus na escala de Richter abala a Nicarágua
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1993 - Grunge rock band Nirvana releases its album In Utero.
1995 - Rudy Perpich dies (b. 1928). American politician.
1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner dies (b. 1959). American athlete winner of 3 gold medals in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurred in central Taiwan, caused about 2,400 people dead.
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly
2002 - International Day of Peace recognized by the United Nations as a full day of ceasefire and nonviolence.
2002 - Robert L. Forward dies (b. 1932). American physicist and writer.
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

2003 - At the 55th Annual Emmy Awards "The West Wing" won for best drama.
2004 - Green Day releases their grammy winning album American Idiot
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman dies (b. 1939). American naturalist and educator.

Feriado do município de Viseu (Portugal)
In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.
Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
Mabon - Neopagan festival of Mabon
Peace One Day
International Day of Peace