On this day - September 21

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1327.- King Edward II of England, Isabella's husband from France, was killed by her lover Roger de Mortime. The queen's mistress then ruled in the name of Crown Prince Edward III, who was imprisoned and killed in 1330.

1452.- The Italian religious reformer Girolamo Hyronimus, a Dominican monk who attacked Pope Alexander VI, was born.

1529.- The Ottoman army under the command of Suleiman the Magnificent began the siege of Vienna.

1792.- In France, at the first session of the Parliament (Convention), at the proposal of the Col d'Irbua, the monarchy was removed.

1832.- Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist, creator of the modern historical novel, died in Dublin. He collected folk songs and wrote epics about the history of Scotland. His most notable works include Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, Starinar and others. He was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771.

1860.- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher-idealist, representative of voluntarism, died. His works include "On the Will of Nature" and "The World as Will and Representation". He was born on February 22, 1788.

1866.- Herbert George Wells, English writer, was born. He wrote a number of scientific, popular-scientific, social and fantasy novels and stories, as well as the famous work "History of the World". He died in 1946.

1867.- American politician Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War, was born from 1911 to 1913 and from 1940 to 1945, the mastermind of the greatest war crime in human history. On his recommendation, US President Harry Truman decided in August 1945 to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though Japan had already been defeated in World War II.

1901.- In Veles, in Dzajkovo Maalo, in the fight against the Turkish police, after the ammunition ran out, Mile Pop Jordanov (brother of Orce Pop Jordanov, organizer of the circle of Thessaloniki assassins), a Macedonian revolutionary, committed suicide.

1909.- Born Ghanaian statesman and publicist Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister and president, a prominent anti-colonial activist and leader of the independence movement.

1927.- Hristo Andonov-Poljanski was born in Dojran, a Macedonian historian, rector of the University "Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje, a longtime professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy and History, a renowned scientist, researcher of the history of the Macedonian people. He is the author of 463 bibliographic items, 36 of which are books. The six volumes about Goce Delchev stand out from his works. "British Bibliography of Macedonia", "Foreign Press on the Ilinden Uprising", "British Documents on the History of the Macedonian People" and others. He died in Skopje, on October 7, 1985.

1928.- British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming has discovered an unknown mold that spoiled his bacterial experiment. But that pollution was an epoch-making discovery that the miraculous family of the fungus Penicillium Notarum kills the deadly bacteria. Since 1942, penicillium has become a medicine that saves millions of people.

1933.- In Leipzig, the German Supreme Court began a trial against Georgi Dimitrov, a member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and a member of the Third International, along with a group of German communists, on charges of organizing the burning of the Reichstag. German fascist propaganda wanted to use the trial for an anti-communist campaign. However, Dimitrov exposed this process of the Nazi regime to the world public and became a prosecutor from a defendant and due to lack of evidence the court was forced to acquit him.

1938.- The Czechoslovak government agreed to the British-French plan to cede the Sudetenland to Germany.

1939.- Romanian fascists assassinate Romanian Prime Minister Armando Calinescu, an opponent of the Third Reich.

1964.- Malta became independent after 164 years of British rule.

1973.- Yugoslavia severed diplomatic relations with Chile 10 days after a US-backed coup by General Augusto Pinochet killed Socialist President Salvador Ajende.

1974.- American film actor Walter Brennan has died. He is the first actor to win three Oscars.

1976.- Former Chilean minister Orlando Letelier has been killed in Washington by a car bomb.

1992.- Mexico and the Vatican have established full diplomatic relations after a 130-year hiatus.

1993.- President Boris Yeltsin dissolved parliament because the election of Alexander Rutskoi as vice president and acting head of state jeopardized his power.

1996.- Nearly four kilograms of heroin suspected of being linked to the drug mafia were found on the plane of Colombian President Enesto Sampero, on which he was to travel to the United States, at Bogota airport after an anonymous report.

1999.- At least 2.300 people have been killed in an earthquake in Taiwan.

2002.- An avalanche of mud and rocks spilling from a glacier in the village of Zhizhny in the Russian republic of North Ossetia has killed more than 100 people.

2007.- Petar Stambolic, a longtime official during the time of Josip Broz Tito, died. Stambolic was born in 1912 in Brezovo, near Ivanjica, and joined the communist movement in 1935. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun. He was an advisor and member of the Presidency of the Second Session of AVNOJ, as well as a member of the Presidency of the SFRY and the Presidency of the Central Committee of the Union of Communities, as well as the President of the Presidency of the SFRY.

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