Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 21 throughout history.
On 26 November 2019 at 03:54 CET (UTC+1), northwestern Albania was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake with an epicentre 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west-southwest of Mamurras. The ea…
A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
Zacharias "Zak" Kostopoulos was a Greek-American activist, defending the rights of LGBT people, HIV-positive people, sex workers, and refugees. He worked as a drag performer under…
LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.
Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation is an American hospital network. It is headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida. It operates healthcare facilities across…
Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital…
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen simply known as al-Shabaab is a transnational Wahhabi-Salafi Jihadist militant organization. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War, contr…
Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Egyptians are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population is concentrated in the Nile Valley, a small strip …
Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Gali…
The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
America: A Tribute to Heroes was a benefit concert created by the heads of the four major American broadcast networks; Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS. Joel Gallen was selected by them to p…
America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the…
Ross Andrew Parker, from Peterborough, England, was a seventeen-year-old white English male murdered in an unprovoked racially motivated crime. He bled to death after being stabbe…
Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
The Chi-Chi earthquake, was a 7.3 ML or 7.7 Mw earthquake which occurred in Jiji (Chi-Chi), Nantou County, Taiwan on September 21, 1999, at 01:47:12 local time. 2,415 people were …
The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.
St. Olaf's Church in Tyrvää is a late medieval fieldstone church in Tyrvää, Sastamala, Finland. It is located on the shore of lake Rautavesi. The church was built approximately in…
St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down by a burglar.
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was a United States federal law passed by the 104th United States Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996. …
The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPS…
Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the…
From 20 to 23 September 1993, during the Sukhumi massacre, separatists in Sukhumi, Abkhazia blocked Georgian troops' overland supply routes as part of the war in Abkhazia. In resp…
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-134 is shot down by a missile in the Black Sea near Sokhumi, Georgia.
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the w…
Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it i…
Brunei joins the United Nations.
Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It al…
Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
Sandra Day O'Connor was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. Nominated by P…
Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
Malév Flight 203 was an international passenger flight from Istanbul, Turkey to Budapest, Hungarian PR with a stop at Bucharest, SR Romania. On September 21, 1977, the plane clipp…
Malév Flight 203 crashes near Urziceni, killing 29 people.
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean Marxist and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he fled from the military…
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelagic country consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is 1,500 kilom…
Seychelles joins the United Nations.