WHAT HAPPENED ON 21. SEPTEMBER
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Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. (21. September 455)

Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthew's Day. (21. September 1217)

An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years' War. (21. September 1435)

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 (21. September 1745)

Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. (21. September 1776)

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point. (21. September 1780)

The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy. (21. September 1792)

John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government. (21. September 1843)

In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. (21. September 1860)

British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan. (21. September 1896)

The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun. (21. September 1897)

Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China. (21. September 1898)

A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people. (21. September 1921)

Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha Libre (21. September 1933)

A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people. (21. September 1934)

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published. (21. September 1937)

The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people. (21. September 1938)

Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization called the Iron Guard. (21. September 1939)

On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp. (21. September 1942)