WillDekkard
09-21-2010, 04:48 AM
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This Date in History - September 21st
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* 1217 Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
* 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
* 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.
* 1827 Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
* 1860 In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
* 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.
* 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 Konstantynσw and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janσw Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
* 1942 In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
* 1942 The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
* 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 No. 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.
* 1989 Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
* 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 AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 31 people
* 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.
* 2004 The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
* 2008 Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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This Date in History - September 21st
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* 1217 Livonian Crusade: The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo are killed in Battle of St. Matthew's Day.
* 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
* 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.
* 1827 Joseph Smith, Jr. is reportedly visited by the angel Moroni, who gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
* 1860 In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
* 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.
* 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 Konstantynσw and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janσw Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
* 1942 In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
* 1942 The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
* 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 No. 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.
* 1989 Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
* 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 AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 31 people
* 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.
* 2004 The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
* 2008 Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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