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Events

• 455 (1571 years ago) Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
• 1953 (73 years ago) Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
• 1964 (62 years ago) Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
• 1965 (61 years ago) The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
• 1977 (49 years ago) Malév Flight 203 crashes near Urziceni, Romania, killing 29 people.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
• 2013 (13 years ago) Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
• 2019 (7 years ago) A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.

Births

• 1842 (184 years ago) Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1918)
• 1866 (160 years ago) H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (died 1946)
• 1909 (117 years ago) Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian educator and politician, 1st President of Ghana (died 1972)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2016)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Stephen King, American author and screenwriter
• 1954 (72 years ago) Shinzo Abe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Kevin Rudd, Australian politician and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1980 (46 years ago) Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress

Deaths

• 19 BC Virgil, Roman poet (born 70 BC)
• 687 (1339 years ago) Pope Conon,
• 1327 (699 years ago) Edward II of England,
• 1558 (468 years ago) Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1500)
• 1576 (450 years ago) Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (born 1501)
• 1832 (194 years ago) Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1771)
• 1860 (166 years ago) Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher and author (born 1788)
• 1957 (69 years ago) Haakon VII of Norway,

All 446 events, births and deaths of September 21