Saturday September 21, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

September 21: Day of the Week

September 21, 2024 is the 265th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 101 days remaining until the end of the 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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Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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 Event(s)

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
1776
Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1780
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
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.
1897
The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1937
J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.
1942
On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
1993
Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
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?

1328
Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1929
Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
1929
Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1936
Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
1941
Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
1944
Hamilton Jordan, American chief of staff for Jimmy Carter (d. 2008)
1958
Rick Mahorn, American basketball player
1962
Rob Morrow, American actor
1972
Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis and Beady Eye)
1987
Jimmy Clausen, American football player

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