Events
of the day
World
Alzheimer’s Day
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– 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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