Sept. 21: Good: 1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy. 1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1965 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations. 1976 – Seychelles joins the United Nations. 1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom. 1984 – Brunei joins the United Nations. Bad: 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 in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol. 1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews. 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. 1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. Births: 1968 – David Jude Jolicoeur, American rapper and producer (De La Soul) Deaths: 1982 – Ivan Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897) 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)
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