SomeFacts | September 21

On this day - September 21

455 — Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates ...

1170 — Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: The Kingdom of Dublin falls ...

1217 — Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian ...

1435 — The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch ...

1745 — A British government army led by Sir John Cope is defeated in ...

1776 — Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British ...

1792 — French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the ...

1809 — British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign ...

1814 — War of 1812: British forces abandon their unsuccessful siege ...

1843 — The crew of schooner Ancud, led by John Williams Wilson, takes ...

1860 — Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops ...

1862 — Taiping Rebellion: The Ever Victorious Army defeats Taiping ...

1896 — Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the ...

1898 — Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred ...

1921 — A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 ...

1933 — Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.

1934 — A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than ...

1937 — J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first ...

1938 — The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in ...

1939 — Romanian prime minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by ...

1942 — The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

1942 — The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans ...

1942 — The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder ...

1942 — The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, ...

1953 — Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South ...

1957 — Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the ...

1964 — The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest ...

1964 — Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains ...

1965 — The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of ...

1969 — Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801, a Boeing 727-100 passenger ...

1971 — Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.

1972 — Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian ...

1976 — Seychelles joins the United Nations.

1976 — Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the ...

1981 — Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. ...

1981 — Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

1984 — Brunei joins the United Nations.

1991 — Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.

1993 — A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-134 is shot down by a missile ...

1993 — Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional ...

1996 — The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States ...

1997 — St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century ...

1999 — The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, ...

2001 — Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ...

2001 — America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network ...

2003 — The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into ...

2012 — Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli ...

2013 — Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall ...

2015 — Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle ...

2018 — LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a ...

2019 — A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. ...