21st September in History...

[hogans]

...
1792: France becomes a republic, abolishing its monarchy
1917: Latvia proclaims independence
1964: Malta becomes independent
1981: Belize, originally called British Honduras, gains its independence

this day is also the International Day of Peace http://www.internationaldayofpeace.org/

anyone else got anything on this date?

[a_fighter]

September 21, 2008: Stock market crash

[aitch]

September 21, 2008: Stock market crashAgreed !! Maybe not a full blown one day meltdown ...... but definitely the start of a major decline that will decimate the global economy ..... well maybe !!

[revolutionary_jam]

wasn't it on a september 11th one year that HW Bush first declared a new world order?

[hogans]

wasn't it on a september 11th one year that HW Bush first declared a new world order?

think it was 11th Sept 1991

[synergy777]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

The Panic of 1873 was a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1877. It was precipitated by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia banking firm Jay Cooke and Company on September 18, 1873 along with the meltdown on May 9, 1873, of the Vienna Stock Exchange in Austria. It was one of a series of economic crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

The Long Depression (1873–1896) (23 years) affected much of the world from the early 1870s until the mid-1890s and was contemporary with the Second Industrial Revolution. At the time it was regarded as the Great Depression, until the more severe Great Depression occurred in the 1930s. It was most notable in Western Europe and North America, but this is in part because reliable data from the period is most readily available in those parts of the world. The United Kingdom is often considered to have been the hardest hit by the Long Depression, and during this period it lost much of its large industrial lead over the economies of Continental Europe. The Depression is usually believed to have ended by 1897. The global economy grew at an impressive rate from that year to the start of World War I.