Happy birthday and many happy returns Ann Thompson and Valerie Alexandra. Born on the same day, across the years, as Bertha of Savoy (1051), Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (1706), John Loudon McAdam (1756), H. G. Wells, (1866), Allen Lane (1902), Larry Hagman (1931), Leonard Cohen (1934), Jerry Bruckheimer (1945), Stephen King (1947), Faith Hill (1967), Nicole Richie (1981) and Christian Serratos (1990) September 21: International Day of Peace; Independence Day in Armenia (1991); Banned Books Week begins (2014) Armand Călinescu 1860 – Second Opium War: Anglo-French forces earned a decisive victory against Qing dynasty troops in the Battle of Palikao, allowing them to capture Beijing. 1897 – The New York Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper, published an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church stating, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, that has become a part of popular Christmas lore in the United States. 1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre event in Mexico City, the worlds oldest continuously operating professional wrestling promotion. 1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu(pictured) was assassinated in Bucharest by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard. 1999 – A 7.6 Mw earthquake struck Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan, killing 2,416 people, injuring over 11,000 others and causing about NT$300 billion in damage. Youve cleared the joint. The Sun has declared it so. Wrestled with it forever. Forget the Iron guard. Rock the joint until it closes. Matches Evolution Of Life – First Life Prokaryote From Cosmic Calendar. 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. 1170 – Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembrokeand Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin into exile. 1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthews Day. 1435 – An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years War. 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 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point. 1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy. 1843 – John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government. 1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. 1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan. 1897 – The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus editorial is published in the New York Sun. 1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days Reform in China. 1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people. 1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people. 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkiens The Hobbit is published. 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 Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization called the Iron Guard. 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp. 1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto inBiała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol. 1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews. 1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. 1953 – LT No Kum-Sok a North Korean pilot defected to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah. 1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter. 1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the worlds first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California. 1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations. 1971 – Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations. 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule. 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. 1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations. 1977 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union. 1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom. 1981 – Sandra Day OConnor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice. 1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations. 1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union. 1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. 1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead. 2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly. 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of theSeptember 11 attacks. 2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiters atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes. 2005 – Hurricane Rita becomes the third most intense hurricane(dropped to 4th in October 19, 2005) 2013 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people. Hatches 1051 – Bertha of Savoy (d. 1087) 1428 – Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457) 1433 – Guillaume Fichet, French scholar (d. 1480) 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest and philosopher (d. 1498) 1559 – Cigoli, Italian painter and architect (d. 1613) 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (d. 1836) 1862 – James E. Talmage, American religious leader and author (d. 1933) 1866 – H. G. Wells, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 1946) 1872 – Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1912) 1873 – Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (d. 1966) 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer and educator (d. 1934) 1899 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986) 1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963) 1902 – Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books (d. 1970) 1903 – Preston Tucker, American automobile designer, designed the Tucker Sedan (d. 1956) 1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2002) 1927 – Ward Swingle, American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (Les Double Six) 1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012) 1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and author 1935 – Henry Gibson, American actor and singer (d. 2009) 1936 – Dickey Lee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942 – U-Roy, Jamaican singer-songwriter and DJ 1944 – Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gass, Hummingbird, Humble Pie, and Streetwalkers) 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer 1945 – G. C. Cameron, American singer (The Spinners) 1945 – Kay Ryan, American poet and educator 1947 – Don Felder, American guitarist and songwriter (Eagles) 1947 – Stephen King, American author and screenwriter 1950 – Bill Murray, American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1951 – Otis Day, American actor 1952 – Dave Gregory, English guitarist (XTC and Big Big Train) 1952 – Anneliese Michel, German woman believed to be possessed by demons (d. 1976) 1954 – Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan 1956 – Marta Kauffman, American screenwriter and producer 1957 – Ethan Coen, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1957 – Mark Levin, American lawyer, radio host, and author 1957 – Kevin Rudd, Australian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Australia 1962 – Rob Morrow, American actor, singer, and director 1963 – Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese impostor 1965 – Cheryl Hines, American actress, director, and producer 1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor and producer 1967 – Glen Benton, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Deicide and Vital Remains) 1967 – Faith Hill, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress 1967 – Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies) 1968 – Ricki Lake, American actress, producer, and talk show host 1969 – Anne Burrell, American chef 1971 – David Vetter, American victim of severe combined immune deficiency syndrome (d. 1984) 1971 – Luke Wilson, American actor 1972 – Olivia Bonamy, French actress 1972 – Liam Gallagher, English singer-songwriter (Oasis, Beady Eye, The Rain) 1976 – Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mew and Apparatjik) 1979 – Jaymee Ong, Australian model and actress 1980 – Kareena Kapoor Khan, Indian actress and singer 1981 – Nicole Richie, American actress, singer, fashion designer, and author 1983 – Kristian Gidlund, Swedish drummer and journalist (Sugarplum Fairy) (d. 2013) 1985 – Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actress 1986 – Faris Badwan, English singer-songwriter (The Horrors and Cats Eyes) 1986 – Lindsey Stirling, American violinist and composer 1989 – Emma Watkins, Australian singer (The Wiggles) 1990 – Allison Scagliotti, American actress 1990 – Christian Serratos, American actress 1992 – Chen, South Korean singer (Exo) 1992 – Rodrigo Godínez, Mexican footballer Despatches 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC) 454 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general (b. 396) 687 – Pope Conon (b. 630) 1217 – Lembitu, Estonian military leader 1217 – Caupo of Turaida 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (b. 1501) 1719 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German author (b. 1647) 1743 – Jai Singh II, Indian king (b. 1688) 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686) 1812 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1751) 1832 – Walter Scott, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1771) 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (b. 1788) 1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794) 1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838) 1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857) 1930 – Juhan Maaker, Estonian torupill player (b. 1845) 1933 – Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese author and poet (b. 1896) 1938 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author (b. 1874) 1939 – Armand Călinescu, Romanian economist and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893) 1942 – John Symes, English cricketer (b. 1879) 1962 – Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mississippi Sheiks) (b. 1892) 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French author and playwright (b. 1896) 1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor and singer (b. 1894) 1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American author and actress (b. 1918) 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer (Weather Report and Trio of Doom) (b. 1951) 1998 – Florence Griffith-Joyner, American runner (b. 1959) 2006 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Bad Company and King Crimson) (b. 1946) 2007 – Rex Humbard, American evangelist and television host (b. 1919) 2011 – John Du Cann, English guitarist (The Attack, Andromeda, Atomic Rooster, and Hard Stuff) (b. 1946) 2011 – Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet (b. 1939) 2013 – Taro Ishida, Japanese actor (b. 1944) === 2014 Autumnal equinox observances in the Northern hemisphere, vernal equinox observances in the Southern hemisphere (see September 22): Arbor Day (Brazil) Spring Day (Argentina) Students Day (Bolivia) Christian Feast Day: Matthew the Evangelist (Western Church) Nativity of the Theotokos (Orthodox Church) September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Founders Day (Ghana) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Armenia from the Soviet Union in 1991. Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Belize from the United Kingdom in 1981. Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Malta from the United Kingdom in 1964. International Day of Peace (International) World Day of Russian Unity (International)
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