September 21: On This Progressive DayBenedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point (1780)
On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, in Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, National Socialist German Workers Party operatives murder 2,588 Jews (1942)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist) (2004)
President B. Hussein Obama appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, his second late night talk show photo-op since becoming president (2009)
al-Shabaab Islamists attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people (2013)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 145th round of golf as POTUS (2013)
b: H. G. Wells (1866), Cass Sunstein (1954); d: Annie Besant (1933), Artur Phleps (1944), Orlando Letelier (1976)
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