Today in History: Chinese Communist leaders proclaim the People's Republic of China
The following are some of the major events which occurred on September 21:
1792 - French Revolution: The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy.
1922 - US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1939 – In Romania, Prime Minister Armand Calinescu was murdered by the fascist Iron Guard.
1949 - Chinese Communist leaders proclaim the People's Republic of China.
1964 – Malta became independent after 164 years of British rule.
1976 – Former Chilean cabinet minister Orlando Letelier was killed in Washington by a bomb placed in his car.
1988 – U.S. athlete Florence Griffith Joyner died at the age of 38 from heart complications.
1999 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck Taiwan, killing at least 2,321 people and injuring 8,712.
2001 – The Dow Jones industrial index of 30 blue chip companies lost 140 points, bringing its loss for the week to 14.2 percent, second only to a 15.5 percent drop in 1933.
2003 – U.S.-controlled Iraq unveiled sweeping reforms that allowed foreign investors into all sectors except oil and ended 30 years of state economic control.
2003 – NASA’s Galileo space probe made a controlled, fiery crash into Jupiter, ending a 14-year mission that yielded dramatic discoveries about Solar System’s largest planet and its moons.
2004 – Major cigarette makers went on trial in a $280 billion case brought by the U.S. government, which accused the tobacco industry of deliberately deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.
2006 – The British billionaire Richard Branson pledged to spend all the profits from his airline and rail businesses — an estimated $3 billion over the next 10 years — on combating global warming.
2013 – Al Shabaab gunmen attack Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
(Reuters)
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