September 21

Tuesday 21, 2004:

Punk rock band Green Day releases its critically acclaimed album American Idiot.

Sunday 21, 2003:

Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

Saturday 21, 2002:

International Day of Peace recognized by the United Nations as a full day of ceasefire and nonviolence.

Friday 21, 2001:

Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.

Tuesday 21, 1999:

Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.

Tuesday 21, 1993:

Grunge rock band Nirvana releases its album In Utero.

Saturday 21, 1991:

Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.

Monday 21, 1981:

Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

Thursday 21, 1972:

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.

Monday 21, 1970:

Monday Night Football premieres.

Monday 21, 1964:

Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Thursday 21, 1950:

George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.

Monday 21, 1942:

The B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.

Thursday 21, 1939:

Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.

Tuesday 21, 1937:

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

Wednesday 21, 1921:

Ammonium nitrate explosion at chemical storage facility in Oppau, Germany, 561 killed.

Wednesday 21, 1898:

Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

Tuesday 21, 1897:

The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter is published in the New York Sun.

Monday 21, 1896:

British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.

Friday 21, 1860:

In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.

Friday 21, 1827:

Joseph Smith, Jr., claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which is translated into The Book of Mormon.

Friday 21, 1792:

The French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.

Thursday 21, 1780:

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

Saturday 21, 1765:

Antoine de Beauterne announced he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan.

Tuesday 21, 1745:

Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Monday 21, 454:

Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates Aëtius in his own throne room.

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