On This Day:
Saturday September 21, 2013 This is the 264th day of the year, with 101 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: Eagle Scout The highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America is Eagle Scout. Only about 4% of Boy Scouts earn the honor of the Eagle Scout award, which was conceived in 1911 as a performance-based achievement. Since then more than one million Boy Scouts have attained this top rank. An Eagle Scout must earn 21 out of the 120 available merit badges (12 of which are required badges). The first recipient of the Eagle Scout rank was 17-year-old Arthur Rose Eldred in 1912, of Troop 1 in Oceanside, New York.
Holidays Philippines: Thanksgiving.
Armenia: Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Belize: Independence Day (from UK, 1981).
Mali: Independence Day/Proclamation of the Republic Anniversary (from France, 1960).
Events 1520 - Suleiman the Magnificent became Ottoman sultan in Constantinople.
1596 - Spain named Juan de Oñate governor of the colony of New Mexico.
1784 - "Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" became the nation's first daily newspaper.
1792 - The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy; the French Republic was then proclaimed.
1810 - Oktoberfest festival began in West Germany with a horse race in honor of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese.
1863 - Union forces retreated to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga.
1893 - Frank Duryea and Charles Duryea demonstrated the first U.S.-made gas-propelled car.
1897 - The "New York Sun" ran its famous editorial that declared, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
1915 - Stonehenge was sold by auction for 6,600 pounds sterling to a Mr. Chubb, who bought it as a present for his wife. Three years later he gave it back to Britain.
1922 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1931 - Britain went off the gold standard.
1949 - People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.
1957 - "Perry Mason" premiered.
1965 - First American, Ted Erikson, swam a round-trip of the English Channel.
1970 - "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut with a game between the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns.
1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter's embattled budget director, Bert Lance, resigned.
1989 - Colin Powell was confirmed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hit the South Carolina coast with destruction totaling $8 billion.
1996 - John F. Kennedy, Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
1999 - Google launched its search engine.
1999 - The Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake kills thousands of people, causes billions of dollars in damages and leaves an estimated 100,000 homeless.
2003 - NASA's aging Galileo spacecraft was deliberately plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, ending its 14-year exploration of the solar system's largest planet and its moons.
Births 1415 - Frederick III, German emperor.
1756 - John Loudon McAdam, Scottish-born American engineer who invented macadamized roads.
1866 - H. G. Wells, British science fiction writer.
1866 - Charles Jules Henri Nicolle, French bacteriologist.
1912 - Chuck Jones, American animator of "The Road Runner" and director of Warner Brothers cartoons.
1931 - Larry Hagman, American actor.
1947 - Stephen King, American horror and supernatural stories author.
1950 - Bill Murray, American comedy writer and actor.
1967 - Faith Hill, American country singer.
Deaths 19 B.C.E. - Virgil, Roman poet.
1327 - Edward II, former king of England, murdered after his forced abdication.
1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet, biographer, and historian.
1904 - Exiled Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph.
1974 - Walter Brennan, American television and film actor.
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