On this day in History - Sep. 21

• 19 BC -Publio Virgil Marón dies (b. 70 BC). Roman poet.
• 0454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aetius in his own throne room.
• 0454 - Aetius dies (b. c. 396). Roman general.
• 0687 - Papa Cónon dies.
• 1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
• 1235 - André II of Hungary dies (b. 1175)
• 1327 - Edward II of England dies murdered by order of his wife (b. 1284).
• 1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China was born (d. 1398).
• 1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel dies executed (b. 1346). English military leader.
• 1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was born (d. 1460). Claimant to the English throne, protagonist of the War of the Roses.
  
• 1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor was born in Innsbruck, Austria († 1493).
• 1428 - Jingtai Emperor of China was born (d. 1457).
• 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.
• 1760 - Ivan Dmitriev was born (d. 1837). Russian statesman.
• 1760 - Olof Swartz was born. Swedish botanist who collected plants in Jamaica and Hispaniola, and published several books on the plants of the Caribbean.
• 1761 - King George III of England was crowned.
• 1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan.
  
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• 1792 - The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.
• 1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers dies (b. 1769). French general.
• 1798 - George Read dies (b. 1733). American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 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.
• 1849 - Maurice Barrymore was born (d. 1905). Actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family.
• 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 - Charles Nicolle was born (d. 1936). French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1928.
• 1866 - H. G. Wells was born (d. 1946). English writer.
• 1873 - Papa Jack Laine was born (d. 1966). American musician.
• 1874 - Gustav Holst was born (d. 1934). English composer.
• 1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont dies (b. 1794). French geologist.
• 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.
• 1895 - Sergei Yesenin was born (d. 1925). Russian poet.
• 1896 - British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
• 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.
• 1899 - Frederick Coutts was born (d. 1986). The 8th General of The Salvation Army
• 1902 - Luis Cernuda was born (d. 1963). Spanish poet.
• 1904 - Chief Joseph dies (b. 1840). Nez Perce leader.
• 1906 - Henry Beachell was born. American Plant Breeder.
• 1906 - Samuel Arnold dies (b. 1838). Lincoln conspirator.
• 1909 - Kwame Nkrumah was born 1911 († 1972). Gana politician, founder of Pan-Africanism
• 1911 - Francisco Lopes Ribeiro, «Ribeirinho» was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1912 - Chuck Jones was born (d. 2002). American animator and director of Warner Brothers cartoons Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
• 1912 - György Sándor was born (d. 2005). Hungarian pianist.
• 1915 - As pedras de Stonehange, na Inglaterra, são vendidas em leilão por £ 6,600 .
• 1917 - Latvia proclaims the Independency.
• 1917 - Herberto Sales was born (d. 1999). Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1918 - John Gofman was born (d. 2007). American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate.
• 1918 - Jofre Soares was born (d. 1996). Brazilian actor.
• 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.
• 1929 - Sándor Kocsis was born (d. 1979). Hungarian footballer.
• 1931 - Larry Hagman was born. American actor (Dallas - JR).
• 1933 - Dick Simon was born. American racing driver.
• 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
• 1934 - Leonard Cohen was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1934 - Rogério Fróes was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1935 - Norma Bengell was born. Brazilian actress and film director.
• 1935 - Henry Gibson was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov was born. Russian politician, mayor of Moscow.
• 1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit.
• 1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
• 1938 - Doug Moe was born. American basketball player and coach
• 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.
• 1939 - Armand Călinescu dies assassinated (b. 1893). Romanian prime-minister.
• 1940 - Bill Kurtis was born. American television journalist.
• 1941 - R. James Woolsey, Jr. was born. CIA director.
• 1941 - Jack Brisco was born. American professional wrestler.
• 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.
• 1942 - António Pacheco de Sousa Franco was born. Portuguese professor and politician.
• 1944 - Fannie Flagg was born. American actress and novelist.
• 1944 - Hamilton Jordan was born. Carter's 1ST Chief of Staff.
• 1945 - Richard Childress was born. NASCAR Team Owner.
• 1945 - Shaw Clifton was born. 18th General of The Salvation Army.
  
• 1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer was born. American film and television producer.
• 1946 - Moritz Leuenberger was born. Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1947 - Don Felder was born. American guitarist (Eagles).
• 1947 - Stephen King was born. American author.
• 1947 - Marsha Norman was born. American playwright.
• 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 (d. 2005). Chechen rebel leader.
• 1951 - Bruce Arena was born. American soccer coach.
• 1952 - Anneliese Michel was born (d. 1972). Exorcism victim, known from the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
  
• 1952 - Neil Peart was born. Canadian drummer (Rush).
• 1953 - Arie Luyendyk was born. Dutch race car driver.
• 1954 - Shinzo Abe was born. Japanese Prime-Minister, politician.
• 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto dies (b. 1858). Japanese inventor.
• 1955 - Mika Kaurismäki was born. Finnish director.
• 1955 - Richard Hieb was born. American astronaut.
• 1956 - Anastasio Somoza, Nicaraguan dictator, was assassinated by Roliberto Lopez.
• 1956 - Jack Givens was born. American basketball player.
• 1956 - Marta Kauffman was born. American television producer.
• 1957 - Kevin Rudd was born. Australian Labor Party leader.
• 1957 - Sidney Moncrief was born. American basketball player.
• 1957 - Ethan Coen was born. American film director.
• 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway dies (b. 1872).
• 1958 - Bruno Fitoussi was born. French poker player.
• 1959 - Corinne Drewery was born. British singer (Swing Out Sister).
• 1959 - Dave Coulier was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Danny Cox was born. Baseball player.
• 1960 - David James Elliott was born. Canadian actor.
• 1960 - Hélder Muteia was born in Quelimane. Mozambican writer and politician.
• 1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
• 1961 - Nancy Travis was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Húbert Nói was born. Icelandic artist.
• 1961 - Earle Dickson died. He invented Band-Aids for his wife, who had frequent kitchen accidents, cutting or burning herself. He worked for Johnson & Johnson, who soon began manufacturing Band-Aids.
• 1962 - Rob Morrow was born. American actor.
• 1963 - Cecil Fielder was born. Baseball player.
• 1963 - Curtly Ambrose was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1963 - Angus Macfadyen was born. Scottish actor.
• 1963 - Paulino Masip dies (b. 1899). Spanish playwright.
• 1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  
• 1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first air-breathing aircraft to achieve a speed of Mach 3, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
• 1964 - Jorge Drexler was born. Uruguyan musician.
• 1965 - Singapore, Gâmbia and Maldivas Islands are admitted as members of the Unired Nations.
• 1965 - Cheryl Hines was born. American actress.
• 1965 - David Wenham was born. Australian actor.
• 1966 - Paul Reynaud dies (b. 1878). French politician.
• 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.
• 1969 - Jason Christiansen was born. American baseball player.
• 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.
• 1970 - Monday Night Football premieres.
• 1970 - John Cudia was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Coca Cola introduced the plastic bottle.
• 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 - John Crawley was born. English cricketer.
• 1971 - Bernardo Houssay dies (b. 1887). Argentinian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1947.
• 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
• 1972 - David Silveria was born. American drummer (KoЯn).
• 1972 - Jon Kitna was born. American football player.
• 1972 - Liam Gallagher was born. British singer (Oasis).
• 1973 - Daniel Guzmán was born. Spanish actor and film director.
• 1972 - Henry de Montherlant dies (b. 1896). French writer.
• 1973 - Oswaldo Sanchez was born. Mexican footballer
• 1974 - A Sonda Mariner 10 passa pela segunda vez perto do planeta Mercúrio
• 1974 - Andy Todd was born. English footballer.
• 1974 - Jana Kandarr was born. German professional tennis player
• 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. American baseball player
• 1975 - Acelino Freitas « o Popó» was born. Brazilian boxeur.
• 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.
• 1976 - As Ilhas Seychelles são admitidas como Estado-Membro da ONU.
  
• 1976 - Poul Hübertz was born. Danish footballer.
• 1976 - Jonas Bjerre was born. Danish singer and guitarist (Mew).
• 1977 - Brian Tallet was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Doug Howlett was born. Professional New Zealand Rugby Union Player.
• 1979 - José Eduardo dos Santos sworns as President of Angola.
• 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.
• 1979 - Chris Gayle was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1979 - Richard Dunne was born. Irish football player.
• 1979 - Julian Gray was born. English football player.
• 1980 - Kareena Kapoor was born. Indian actress.
• 1980 - Autumn Reeser was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Aleksa Palladino was born. Canadian actress.
• 1980 - Nyree Lewis was born. British Paralympic swimmer.
• 1980 - Tomas Scheckter ws born. South African racing driver.
• 1980 - Robert Hoffman (actor) was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female supreme court justice, is confirmed by the senate in a 99-0 vote.
• 1981 - Meilinda Soerjoko was born. Indonesian-Australian actress.
• 1981 - Nicole Richie was born. American socialite.
• 1982 - Danny Kass was born. American snowboarder.
• 1982 - Rowan Vine was born. English footballer.
• 1982 - Eduardo Azevedo was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1982 - Marat Izmailov was born. Russian footballer.
• 1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan dies (b. 1897). Soviet general.
• 1983 - Anna Meares was born. Australian cyclist.
• 1983 - Fernando Cavenaghi was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1983 - Maggie Grace was born. American actress.
• 1983 - Joseph Mazzello was born. American actor.
• 1983 - Hart Hancock was born. American musician (Amphoteric).
• 1984 - Brunei is admited in United Nations.
• 1985 - Maryam Hassouni was born. Dutch actor.
• 1985 - Gu Long dies (b. 1937). Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels.
• 1985 - Xavier Zubiri dies. Spanish philosopher.
• 1986 - In the 38th Emmy Awards the winners included Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey and Michael J. Fox
• 1987 – Icehouse release Man of Colours.
• 1987 - Jimmy Clausen was born. American college football player
• 1987 - Ashley Paris was born. American basketball player
• 1987 - Courtney Paris was born. American basketball player
• 1987 - Jaco Pastorius dies (b. 1951). American bassist
• 1988 - Arminda Correia dies in Lisbon (b. 26 Dec 1903). Portuguese lyric singer.
• 1988 - Glenn Robert Davis dies (b. 1914). Member of United States Congress
• 1989 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
• 1990 - Christian Serratos was born. American actress.
• 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos dies (b. 1933). Greek film director and screenwriter.
• 1991 - Armenia granted independence from Soviet Union.
• 1991 - Jordan Hasay was born. American track & field athlete.
• 1991 - Zoe Weizenbaum was born. American actress.
• 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 - The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu god Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
• 1995 - Rudy Perpich dies (b. 1928). American politician.
• 1997 – Jennifer Holt dies (b. 1920). American actress.
• 1998 - Lorenzo, Nikolas, Myrinda and Zachary Brino (Brino quadruplets) were born. American actor/actresses.
• 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.
• 2000 - Bryan Smith dies (b. 1957). Man who ran over Stephen King.
• 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
• 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 - At the 55th Annual Emmy Awards "The West Wing" won for best drama.
• 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 (Maoist).
• 2004 - Green Day releases their grammy winning album American Idiot
• 2004 – Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.
• 2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman dies (b. 1939). American naturalist and educator.
• 2004 - Bob Mason fies (b. 1952). British actor.
• 2005 - JetBlue Airways Flight 292 performs an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport following a front landing gear failure.
• 2006 - Boz Burrell dies (b. 1946). English rock musician.
• 2007 - Alice Ghostley dies (b. 1926). American actress.
• 2007 - Hallgeir Brenden dies (b. 1929). Norwegian Olympic gold medalist.
• 2007 - Rex Humbard dies (b. 1919). American television evangelist.
• 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.
• International Day of Peace of the United Nations, as propagated by Peace One Day.
• International Banana Festival.
• RC 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) and 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.
• In 2007, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins at sunset.
• Municipal Holiday in Viseu (Portugal) / Feriado do município de Viseu.