Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 21

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  A B-29 Superfortress
• Empress Dowager Cixi
  Empress Dowager Cixi
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  No Kum-sok
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  Armand Călinescu
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  Virginia O'Hanlon
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  The Great Fire of New York
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  A painting depicting the Angel Moroni delivering golden plates to Joseph Smith
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  I-80 in western Iowa
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  Charles Edward Stuart

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Oktoberfest begins (2012);	refimprove section
Independence Day in Armenia (1991), Belize (1981) and Malta (1964)	Armenia: refimprove section; Belize: outdated; Malta: refimprove section
454 – Roman emperor Template:Nowrap killed Aetius in Ravenna.	unreferenced section
1745 – Jacobite risings: Jacobite troops led by Charles Edward Stuart (pictured) defeated Hanoverian forces in Prestonpans, Scotland.	Date not cited.
1823 – According to Joseph Smith, he was first visited by the Angel Moroni, who would guide him to the golden plates that became the basis of the Book of Mormon.	Tagged for WP:OR
1860 – Second Opium War: Anglo-French forces earned a decisive victory against Qing dynasty troops in the Battle of Palikao, allowing them to capture Beijing.	lots of CN tags (5)
1898 – The Hundred Days' Reform in China was abruptly terminated when Empress Dowager Cixi forced the reform-minded Guangxu Emperor into seclusion and took over the government as regent.	needs more footnotes
1921 – A tower silo storing 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, Germany, killing at least 500 people.	refimprove
1933 – Salvador Lutteroth ran the first Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre event, now the world's oldest professional wrestling promotion in existence, in Mexico City.	Update needed orange banner
1939 – Romanian prime minister Armand Călinescu was assassinated in Bucharest by pro-Nazi members of the Iron Guard.	incomplete citations
1942 – The prototype model of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, a four-engine heavy bomber that became one of the largest aircraft to see service during World War II, flew for the first time.	refimprove section
1953 – North Korean No Kum-sok defected with his MiG-15, inadvertently making Operation Moolah, an American effort to bribe communist pilots, a success.	unreferenced section
1976 – Chilean political figure Orlando Letelier was assassinated in Washington, D.C., by DINA agents.	refimprove section
2005 – Hurricane Rita, the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico, achieved Template:Nowrap status, and left up to 125 dead over the following days.	refimprove section
Virgil |d|19 BC|	Many uncited passages
Leonello d'Este |b|1407	Many uncited passages
Arthur Schopenhauer |d|1860|	Many uncited passages
Leonard Cohen |b|1934|	Too much uncited
Faith Hill |b|1967	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1170 – Norman invasion of Ireland: English and Irish forces conquered Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, the last Norse–Gaelic king of Dublin, into exile.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Fire of New York (depicted) broke out during the British occupation of New York City, destroying up to 1,000 buildings.
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Nazareth ended with the British Empire victorious over the Ottomans.
• 1934 – The Muroto typhoon, the strongest in Japanese history at the time, made landfall on the mainland, killing more than 3,000 and leaving around 200,000 homeless.
• 1937 – [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Template:Nowrap Tolkien]]'s fantasy children's novel The Hobbit, which later served as a prelude to The Lord of the Rings, was first published.
• 1938 – The Great New England Hurricane made landfall on Long Island, New York, killing an estimated 682 people and injuring 1,754 others.
• 1943 – Second World War: The German Army began the Massacre of the Acqui Division on the Greek island of Cephalonia, executing 5,155 Italian soldiers in the next five days.
• 1958 – The first section of Interstate 80 in Iowa opened in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
• 1965 – Portugal accepted a diplomatic mission from Southern Rhodesia despite objections by Britain, which had required the colony to implement black majority rule as a condition of independence.
• 1968 – The Soviet Union's [[Zond 5|Template:Nowrap]] landed in the Indian Ocean, becoming the first spacecraft to safely return to Earth after travelling around the Moon.
• 1996 – The Defense of Marriage Act was passed by the United States Congress, prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex marriage, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.
• 2001 – Several British Muslim youths in Peterborough, England, murdered 17-year-old Ross Parker, leading to debate over whether the British media failed to cover racially motivated crimes with white victims.
• 2013 – Unidentified gunmen began a three-day attack on the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in the deaths of 67 people with at least another 175 wounded.
• Born/died: | Abu Ishaq Ibrahim |b|953| [[Andrew II of Hungary|Template:Nowrap of Hungary]] |d|1235| Barbara Longhi |b|1552| Charles Nicolle |b|1866| [[H. G. Wells|Template:Nowrap Wells]] |b|1866| Virginia Tango Piatti |b|1869| Helen Foster Snow |b|1907| Denny Jones |b|1910| Kay Ryan |b|1945| Bill Struth |d|1956| Kevin Rudd |b|1957| Jacqueline Susann |d|1974| Bertha McNeill |d|1979| Florence Griffith Joyner |d|1998| John Boyden|d|2021

September 21: International Day of Peace; Yom Kippur (Judaism, 2026) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1675 – Led by Antonio de Vea, a Spanish naval expedition departed El Callao, Peru, for the fjords and channels of Patagonia to find whether rival colonial powers were in the region.
• 1897 – In response to a letter written by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, The New York Sun published an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church stating, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
• 1934 – Chandrashekhar Agashe (pictured) established the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd., one of the oldest companies in India.
• 1999 – A Template:Nowrap earthquake struck Jiji, Taiwan, killing 2,415 people, injuring more than 11,000 others and causing about Template:Nowrap (US$10 billion) in damage across the island.
• 2004 – American rock band Green Day released their seventh studio album, American Idiot.