September 21 in history
Events on September 21
Notable events that happened on September 21 in past years.
- 2019
A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
Wikipedia article: 2019 Albania earthquake - 2012
Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
Wikipedia article: Egyptians - 1999
The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.
Wikipedia article: 1999 Jiji earthquake - 1993
Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.
Wikipedia article: Boris Yeltsin - 1984
Brunei joins the United Nations.
Wikipedia article: Brunei - 1976
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by Michael Townley, linked to the National Intelligence Directorate of Chile.
Wikipedia article: Orlando Letelier - 1969
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801, a Boeing 727-100 passenger plane, crashes during a landing attempt in Mexico City, killing 27 of the 118 occupants.
Wikipedia article: Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801 - 1957
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
Wikipedia article: Pamir (ship) - 1942
The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
Wikipedia article: The Holocaust in Poland - 1937
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first time. (September 22 is celebrated by some fans as Hobbit Day, however.)
Wikipedia article: J. R. R. Tolkien - 1898
Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Wikipedia article: Empress Dowager Cixi - 1860
Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
Wikipedia article: Second Opium War - 1792
French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.
Wikipedia article: French Revolution - 1435
The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
- 454
Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III murders his general Flavius Aetius on instigation of eunuch Heraclius and senator Petronius Maximus.
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