Historical timeline for September 21

A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.

LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.

Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.

Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.

The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.

America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.

The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.

St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down by a burglar.

The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.

Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.

A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-134 is shot down by a missile in the Black Sea near Sokhumi, Georgia.

Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.

Brunei joins the United Nations.

Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

Malév Flight 203 crashes near Urziceni, killing 29 people.

Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.

Seychelles joins the United Nations.