September 21<\/p>\n
454 \u2013 Roman Imperial General Flavius Aetius, victor over the forces of Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, is murdered by Emperor Valentinian in Ravenna, Italy.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.<\/p>\n
1780 \u2013 Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.<\/p>\n
1938 \u2013 A category 3 power hurricane hits Long Island in New York, causing some 500-700 deaths and over $300 million in damage.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 In Seattle, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress<\/em> makes its first flight.<\/p>\n 1953 \u2013 North Korean pilot Lieutenant No Kum Sok, the late Kenneth H. Rowe, defects to South Korea with his MiG-15 jet fighter and is awarded a $100,000 bounty.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 In Palmdale California, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie<\/em> makes its first flight<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 Actor Walter Brennan dies at his ranch in Ventura County, California.<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013\u00a0 Former Chilean Marxist government official Orlando Letelier is assassinated by a car bomb in Washington D.C<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the Senate as the first female Supreme Court Justice.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends the Russian parliament and scraps the existing soviet era constitution causing widespread violence lasting over a week.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 America: A Tribute to Heroes<\/em>, is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 NASA’s Galileo<\/em> orbiter is purposefully crashed into Jupiter’s atmosphere.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 21 454 \u2013 Roman Imperial General Flavius Aetius, victor over the forces of Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, is murdered by Emperor Valentinian in Ravenna, Italy. 1776 \u2013 Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. 1780 \u2013 Benedict Arnold gives the British … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59835"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96157,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59835\/revisions\/96157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}