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Events on September 21

• 1457 The Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg is founded.
• 1792 In the French Revolution, the National Convention declares King Louis XVI deposed, and the First French Republic begins.
• 1903 August Oetker has the process for manufacturing baking powder patented.
• 1937 The fantasy book The Hobbit (The Hobbit) by J. R. R. Tolkien is published.
• 1956 The magistrate of the city of Berlin resolves to rebuild the Brandenburg Gate.
• 1957 In the sinking of the German training sailing ship Pamir in a hurricane southwest of the Azores, 80 of the 86 crew members lose their lives.
• 1972 The German Bundestag approves a pension reform (introduction of the flexible retirement age).
• 1983 The 800-gram mobile phone DynaTAC 8000X from Motorola is approved in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission as the world's first cell phone.
• 1991 Civil rights activists from the former GDR establish the party organization Alliance 90.
• 2003 The mission of the American space probe Galileo ends in a controlled crash into Jupiter.
• 2011 The German cyclist Tony Martin wins the individual time trial world title for the first time at the UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen.
• 2012 The JadeWeserPort officially begins operations in Wilhelmshaven.

Born on September 21

• 1874 Gustav Holst, British composer
• 1890 Max Immelmann, German fighter pilot
• 1920 Vico Torriani, Swiss pop singer, actor, showman and cookbook author
• 1931 Larry Hagman, American actor
• 1950 Bill Murray, American actor, director, comedian and producer
• 1962 Bettina Röhl, German journalist, daughter of Ulrike Meinhof
• 1971 Luke Wilson, American actor
• 1972 Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)
• 1981 Nicole Richie, American model
• 2000 Florian Lipowitz, German cyclist

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „21. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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