21 September

The 21st o September is the 264t day o the year (265t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 101 days bidin.

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Events

1846: Battle o Monterrey

1964: Banner o Maltae

1981: Banner o Belize

• 1745 - Jacobite rebels briefly tak control ower the whole o Scotland efter winnin the Battle o Prestonpans.
• 1792 - The Naitional Convention o Fraunce abolishes the monarchy.
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: The Battle o Monterrey stairts.
• 1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes pouer in Cheenae.
• 1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit" is published.
• 1957 - Olav V o Norawa becomes Keeng.
• 1964 - Maltae gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1965 - The Gambie, the Maldives an Singapore jyn the Unitit Naitions.
• 1971 - Bahrain, Bhutan an Qatar jyn the Unitit Naitions.
• 1976 - The Seychelles jyn the Unitit Naitions.
• 1981 - Belize gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1984 - Brunei jyns the Unitit Naitions.
• 1991 - Armenie gains unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
• 1993 - Roushie Preses Boris Yeltsin suspends pairlament an the constitution.
• 1999 - A yirdquauk in Taiwan kills aroond 2,400 fowk.
• 2001 - 31 fowk are kilt in a chemical splosion in Toulouse, Fraunce.
• 2003 - The Galileo space mission is endit, as the Galileo probe is sent intae Jupiter's atmosphere.
• 2004 - Biggin wirk stairts on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
• 2013 - A terrorist attack on a funeral in Sadr Ceety, Iraq, kills at least 60 fowk.
• 2013 - Al-Shabaab militants attack the Westgate Shoppin Mall in Nairobi, Kenyae, killin 68 fowk.

Births

Leonard Cohen

Kareena Kapoor

• 1415 - Frederick III, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
• 1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest an philosopher (d. 1498)
• 1640 - Philippe o Fraunce, Duke o Orléans (d. 1701)
• 1756 - John Loudon McAdam, Scots ingineer (d. 1832)
• 1817 - John Allan Broun, Scots scientist (d. 1879)
• 1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
• 1842 - Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
• 1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch pheesicist (d. 1926)
• 1866 - H. G. Wells, Inglis writer (d. 1946)
• 1874 - Gustav Holst, Inglis componer (d. 1934)
• 1876 - William Maxwell, Scots fitbawer an cricketer (d. 1940)
• 1902 - George McLachlan, Scots fitbawer (d. ?)
• 1909 - Kwame Nkrumah, 1st Preses o Ghana (d. 1972)
• 1919 - Mario Bunge, Argentine pheesicist an philosopher (d. 2020)
• 1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American pheesicist (d. 2013)
• 1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian sangster-sangwriter an poet (d. 2016)
• 1934 - David J. Thouless, Scots-American pheesicist (d. 2019)
• 1936 - Yury Luzhkov, Roushie politeecian, umwhile Mayor o Moscow (d. 2019)
• 1947 - Stephen King, American writer
• 1950 - Bill Murray, American actor an comedian
• 1954 - Shinzo Abe, umwhile Prime meenister o Japan
• 1957 - Kevin Rudd, 26t Prime Meenister o Australie
• 1967 - Faith Hill, American sangster
• 1967 - Suman Pokhrel, Nepalese poet
• 1972 - Liam Gallagher, Inglis sangster (Oasis)
• 1979 - Keith Lasley, Scots fitbawer
• 1980 - Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1981 - Nicole Richie, American fashion designer, author, actress an telly personality
• 1987 - Ross Thomson, Scots politeecian
• 1989 - Jason Derulo, American sangster

Daiths

• 19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
• 1327 - King Edward II o Ingland (b. 1284)
• 1558 - Charles V, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
• 1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathemateecian an medicinar (b. 1501)
• 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scots writer (b. 1771)
• 1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1956 - Bill Struth, Scots fitbawer (b. 1875)
• 1957 - King Haakon VII o Norawa (b. 1872)

Halidays

• Internaitional Day o Peace
• Naitional Day o Maltae an Belize

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