Santo Domingo.- The anniversaries of September 21, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below, the main anniversaries of September 21:
World Equinox Day: “spring equinox” (in the southern hemisphere) and “autumn equinox” (in the northern hemisphere).
International Day of Alzheimer’s.
International Day of Peace.
International Day against Tree Monocultures.
International Day of Progressive Rock.
International Day of Bibliodiversity.
World Pagan Pride Day.
Artist’s Day.
Santoral: Saint Matthew, apostle and evangelist. Independence Day of Belize, Armenia and Malta. International Day of Peace.
National: anniversaries of September 21
1841: Born in Santo Domingo the writer Emiliano Tejera, combatant against annexation to Spain, author of a dictionary of indigenous words and a book about the remains of Christopher Columbus.
1844: Installed in San Cristóbal the first Constituent Congress, presided over by the journalist Manuel María Valencia.
1931: Born in Puerto Plata the professor Ana Mercedes Henríquez Vda. Núñez, who studied at the Antera Mota School and the Emilio Prud’Homme Lyceum.
1947: The expeditionaries of several nations that were training in Cayo Confites, Cuba, to fight against Trujillo’s dictatorship, decide to leave the place upon learning of a possible military uprising.
1959: The province Julia Molina (now María Trinidad Sánchez) is created through Law 5220, in honor of the dictator Rafael Trujillo’s mother.
1966: Foreign occupation troops, arrived on April 28, 1965, definitively withdraw from the national territory.
1987: President Joaquín Balaguer issues Decree 489-87, which creates the Technical Office of Land Transportation (OTTT) to regulate public transportation.
2009: The military high command orders the immediate tender for the acquisition of a 3D military radar system and a command and control center to face illicit flights of narcotrafficking.
2015: The Attorney General’s Office requests the Supreme Court to investigate Judge Awilda Reyes Beltré for ordering the delivery of US$20.8 million to Prado Universal Corp., linked to narco-trafficker Arturo del Tiempo.
2017: Hurricane Maria hits the country with winds of up to 185 km/h, causing severe damage to the electrical grid and affecting over 1,000 homes.
2018: The foreign ministers of the Dominican Republic, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, and China, Wang Yi, formally open the Chinese embassy in the country.
2021: The New York City Police Department reports the dismantling of a gang dedicated to vehicle theft in the Bronx and Manhattan, many of which were sent to the Dominican Republic for sale.
2022: Pope Francis expresses his pain and solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Dominican priest David Pantaleón reveals that the Cuban government forced his departure from the country for not renewing his residence permit, after more than five years on the island.
2023: President Luis Abinader inaugurates in New York the first Representation Office of the Savings Bank to serve Dominican residents in the US.
International: anniversaries of September 21
1526: In Ecuador, Bartolomé Ruiz founds the village of San Mateo (now the city of Esmeraldas).
1561: A fire destroys much of the Spanish city of Valladolid.
1792: In France, the Legislative Assembly proclaims the First Republic.
1843: Chilean Captain Juan Guillermo takes possession of the Strait of Magellan in the name of Chile.
1880: Buenos Aires is declared the capital of Argentina, separated from provincial jurisdiction.
1956: In Nicaragua, poet Rigoberto López Pérez shoots and kills dictator Anastasio Somoza García, who dies days later in Panama.
1964: Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, although it remains in the Commonwealth.
1965: In Vietnam, General William Westmoreland requests authorization to use mustard gas.
1976: In the US, Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador, and his secretary Ronni Moffitt are assassinated in a bombing directed by Pinochet agents.
1981: Belize gains independence. The United Nations General Assembly establishes this date as International Day of Peace.
1991: The Estonian Supreme Soviet proclaims its independence from the Soviet Union.
1994: Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962), dies.
2001: In France, an explosion at the AZF factory leaves 12 dead and 180 injured.
2005: George W. Bush announces a reconstruction plan after Hurricane Katrina, funded by the federal government.
2006: Vladimiro Montesinos, former Peruvian presidential advisor, is sentenced to 20 years for selling arms to the FARC.
2009: Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya takes refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
2011: Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate in Ramallah in favor of recognizing the Palestinian state.
2013: France seizes 1.3 tons of pure cocaine in an Air France plane from Venezuela.
2018: Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang dies in Hanoi at the age of 61.
2020: The United Nations commemorates its 75th anniversary with virtual speeches due to the pandemic. The US accuses a New York police officer of spying for China, reporting on the Tibetan community.
2022: Vladimir Putin orders the partial mobilization of reservists in Russia, acknowledging difficulties in the war against Ukraine. Rosa Elena Bonilla, former first lady of Honduras, is sentenced to over 14 years in prison for corruption.
2023: US Senator Robert Menendez and his wife are accused of bribery in exchange for political favors. Antony Blinken (US) and William Ruto (Kenya) coordinate details of an international mission to face the security crisis in Haiti.
Births: anniversaries of September 21
1740: Mateo Pumacahua, Peruvian military leader.
1832: Louis-Paul Cailletet, French physicist and inventor.
1841: Emiliano Tejera, Dominican writer.
1909: Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician.
1931: Ana Mercedes Henríquez Vda. Núñez, Dominican professor.
1954: Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan between 2006 and 2007 and between 2012 and 2020.
1996: Kristine Froseth, Norwegian-American actress and model.
