September
21
Independence
Day
Armenia : September 21 1991
Belize : September 21 1981
Malta : September 21 1964
September
21 : International Day of Peace
The
International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by resolution
36/67 of the United Nations General Assembly to coincide with
its opening session, which was held annually on the third Tuesday
of September. The first Peace Day was observed in September
1982. In 2001, the General Assembly by unanimous vote adopted
resolution 55/282, which established 21 September as an annual
day of non-violence and cease-fire. The UN invites all nations
and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day,
and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public
awareness on issues related to peace.
September
21 : World Alzheimer’s Day
World
Alzheimer's Day, September 21st of each year, is a day on which
Alzheimer's organizations around the world concentrate their
efforts on raising awareness about Alzheimer's and dementia.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, a group
of disorders that impairs mental functioning.
Every 68
seconds, someone develops Alzheimer's disease. At current rates,
experts believe the number of Americans living with Alzheimer’s
will quadruple to as many as 16 million by the year 2050.
Alzheimer's
disease is often called a family disease, because the chronic
stress of watching a loved one slowly decline affects everyone.
5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. Alzheimer's
disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States
and the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States
that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. With the increases
in life spans and baby boomers coming of age, support for Alzheimer’s
research is more critical to our families than ever.
Events
455 – Emperor
Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu
and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew's
Day.
1338 – Hundred Years' War : The Battle of Arnemuiden was the
first naval battle in history involving artillery.
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.
1823 – Joseph Smith is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni,
who told him the location of gold plates, which Smith obtained
four years later and partially translated into The Book of Mormon.
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. Tolkien's 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 Calinescu is assassinated
by ultranationalist members of 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
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.
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 world's 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.
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.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor 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
September 11 attack victims.
2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into
Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at
the lower altitudes.
Holidays
and observances
Arbor Day
(Brazil)
Christian Feast Day:
Matthew the Evangelist (Western Church)
Nativity of the Theotokos (Orthodox Church)
September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Founder's 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)
Student's Day, also Spring Day (Argentina) and Bolivia
The first day of Mabon (Neopaganism)
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