It happened on this day, September 21st.
Events:
622 AD – The arrival of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, in Medina during the Prophet's migration.
1792 – Abolition of the monarchy and declaration of the establishment of the Republic in France.
1843 – Chile invades the Strait of Magellan to gain sovereignty.
1916 – The Turkish garrison of Taif surrenders to Arab forces.
1943 – Béchara El-Khoury is elected President of Lebanon.
1959 – Abdul Karim Qasim orders the execution of Nasserist officers accused of conspiring against him.
1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1970 – Arab presidents gather in Cairo to hold an emergency summit on the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war, known as Black September.
1979 – A military coup in Central Africa ousts Jean-Bedel Bokassa from power.
1982 – Amin Gemayel is elected President of Lebanon, following the assassination of his brother, President-elect Bashir Gemayel.
1985 – 2,000 people are killed when a powerful earthquake shakes Mexico.
1989 – The Taif Conference begins in Saudi Arabia to resolve the Lebanese civil war.
✴️ The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee approves President George Bush's nomination of General Colin Powell to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making General Powell the first African-American to hold the high military position.
1991 – Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union. A United Nations mission begins work to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolves parliament.
1997 – Armed men in Algeria massacre 53 people in the “village of Qalb el-Kebir”.
1999 – A severe earthquake kills 2,000 people in Taiwan, injures and displaces thousands.
2001 – Arnold Rüttel is elected President of the Republic of Estonia.
2008 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his resignation from office after being accused of corruption and of organizing early elections within the ruling Kadima party for which he did not run, thus losing his position as party leader.
✴️ Samir Geagea announced in his speech at a commemorative festival of the martyrs of the Lebanese Forces in Jounieh his apologies for the mistakes committed by the forces during the civil war.
2013 – The Westgate Mall massacre incident left more than 68 dead and about 175 injured. The attack was claimed by the Al-Shabaab mujahideen movement.
2014 – Signing of the Peace and National Partnership Agreement between the Ansar Allah “Houthis” group and the Yemeni government to end the Houthi protests.
2016 – A boat sank off the Rosetta region of Egypt, causing more than 204 people on board to drown as they attempted to illegally immigrate out of the country.
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Births:
1452 – Savonarola, Italian politician.
1645 – Louis Juliette, Canadian explorer.
1756 – John Loudon MacAdam, Scottish engineer.
1840 – Sultan Murad V, Caliph of the Muslims and Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1842 – Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Caliph of the Muslims and Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
1853 – Heike Kämerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.
1866 – Charles Nicole, French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1928.
** Herbert George Wells, English writer, thinker, journalist, sociologist and historian.
1909 – Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana.
1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator and director.
1918 – Juan José Arreola, Mexican writer.
1926 – Donald Glaser, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960.
1929 – Sandor Kosic, Hungarian footballer.
1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor.
1944 – Steve Bashir, American politician.
1946 – Suhair Al-Morshedy, Egyptian actress.
** Khalil Morsi, Egyptian actor.
1947 – Stephen King, American novelist.
1948 – Abdel Sattar Qassem, Palestinian writer, thinker, political analyst and academic.
1950 – Bill Murray, American actor.
1954 – Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan.
1957 – Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia.
1962 – Rob Morrow, American actor.
1965 – Cheryl Hines, American actress.
1967 – Faith Hill, American singer.
1971 – Luke Wilson, American actor.
1974 – Andy Todd, English footballer.
1977 – Bassem Feghali, Lebanese monologue.
1979 – Nisreen Ahmed, Egyptian actress living in Kuwait.
** Richard Dunne, Irish footballer.
1980 – Robert Hoffman, American actor.
** Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress.
1981 – Shaima Ali, Iranian actress living in Kuwait.
1983 – Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer.
** Maggie Grace, American actress.
1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician.
1989 – Jason Derulo, American singer of Haitian origin.
1992 – Chen, singer of the group EXO.
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Death:
19 BC – Vergelius, Roman poet.
454 – Aetius, Roman commander.
717 – Suleiman bin Abdul Malik, Umayyad caliph.
732 – Muhammad bin Ali al-Baqir, the fifth Imam among the Twelver Imami Shiites.
1327 – King Edward II, King of England.
1558 – King Carlos V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor.
1822 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist.
1855 – Hassan Al-Mohseni, Iranian jurist, writer and poet.
1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher.
1911 – Ahmed Orabi, Egyptian commander and leader.
1966 – Paul Reynaud, French Prime Minister.
1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1947.
1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor.
1983 – Fayza Ahmed, Egyptian singer and actress of Syrian origin.
2018 – Tran Dai Quang, eighth president of Vietnam.
2021 – Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian military commander.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ International Day of Peace.
⬅️ Independence Day in Malta.
⬅️ Independence Day in Belize.
⬅️ Independence Day in Armenia.
⬅️ World Alzheimer's Day.
