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September 21: Day Of The Week

September 21, 2013 is the 264^th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.

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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

September 21 Historical Events

• 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
• 1860 –
  In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
• 1896 –
  British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
• 1934 –
  A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
• 1937 –
  J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
• 1942 –
  In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
• 1981 –
  Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
• 1991 –
  Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
• 2003 –
  Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

Who were born on September 21?

• 1849 –
  Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
• 1866 –
  Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
• 1944 –
  Bobby Tench, British vocalist and guitarist
• 1946 –
  Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss jurist
• 1955 –
  Gulshan Grover, Indian actor
• 1966 –
  Ronna Reeves, country music singer
• 1970 –
  John Cudia, American actor
• 1971 –
  David Vetter, The Boy in the Bubble (d. 1984)
• 1972 –
  Scott Spiezio, American baseball player
• 1987 –
  Jimmy Clausen, American football player

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