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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