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.

## Events

* 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

* 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