September 21

[[pl:21 wrze%B6nia]] September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). There are 101 days remaining.

Events:

1745 - Battle of Prestonpans - Hanoverian army under the command of John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point
1792 - French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy
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" letter is published in the New York Sun
1898 - Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power in China
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien publishes The Hobbit
1942 - B-29 Superfortress makes its debut
1949 - People's Republic of China officially declared
1950 - George Marshall was sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1970 - Monday Night Football premieres
1981 - Belize granted full independence from the United Kingdom
1984 - Brunei gains its independence from the United Kingdom
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly's nucleus

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In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.
National Day in Belize

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries