Today in History - onthisday.com

 

Sept 21

1621 King James I of England gives Scottish courtier and poet William Alexander a royal charter to colonize Nova Scotia 

1792 French First Republic is formed by the National Convention, stripping the French king of his powers 

1792 French Revolution: The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy 1898 Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor

1913 France's Adolphe Pégoud becomes the second pilot to fly a loop

1915 Cecil Chubb buys the prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600 and later donates it to the British nation 

1922 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 

1936 Spanish fascist junta names Francisco Franco Generalísimo and Supreme Commander 

1937 J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is published by George Allen and Unwin in London

1949 Mao Zedong and Chinese Communist leaders announce the establishment of the People's Republic of China at the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, Peking

1982 NFL players begin a 57-day strike

2004 Green Day releases their album "American Idiot" in the US

2016 Three genetic studies published in "Nature" conclude that all non-Africans descend from one migration out of Africa 50,000 to 80,000 years ago

For a full list of Historical Events on September 21

https://www.onthisday.com/events/september/21