Daily Calendar for Monday, September 21, 2026

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A day to support peace and non-violence throughout the world. Observed on the opening day of the annual regular session of the United Nations.

Louis Joliet (explorer) – 1645
Francis Hopkinson (judge) – 1737
Margaret Taylor (U.S. First Lady) – 1788
Sir Edmund William Gosse (poet) – 1849
H.G. Wells (writer) – 1866
Henry Lewis Stimson (politician) – 1867
Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny animator) – 1912
Donald Glaser (American physicist and inventor of the Bubble Chamber; born in Cleveland, Ohio.) – 1926
Larry Hagman (actor) – 1931
Don Felder (musician) – 1947
Stephen King (author) – 1947
Bill Murray (actor) – 1950
Dave Coulier (actor) – 1959
David James Elliot (actor) – 1960
Cheryl Hines (actress) – 1965
Luke Wilson (actor) – 1971
John Kitna (football player) – 1972
Virginia Ruano Pascual (tennis player) – 1973
Jana Kandarr (tennis player) – 1976
Maggie Grace (actress) – 1983

The New York Sun’s Frank Church replied, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. – 1897
Stonehenge was sold to a local landowner for 6,600 pounds – 1915
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit published – 1937
The NFL’s longest punt, 98 yards, came off the foot of Steve O’Neal of the NY Jets – 1969
The NY Jets competed against the Cleveland Browns in the first televised NFL Monday Night Football game – 1970
Belize becomes fully independent from Great Britain – 1981
Canada’s “toonie” coin unveiled – 1995
John F. Kennedy, Jr. married Carolyn Bessette – 1996
Singer Billy Joel was honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame – 2004

The hurricane that came to be known as the Long Island Express slammed into Long Island at 60 mph – 1938
The Blue Hills Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, had a sustained wind of 121 mph, with a peak gust of 186 mph – 1938
Hurricane Georges struck Puerto Rico – 1998
Hurricane Igor struck Newfoundland and Labrador – 2010