On September 21
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly September 21 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Sep 18 – Sep 24)
On 19 September 1893 the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, making the colony the first self-governing nation in the world to grant all adult women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
On 18 September 1931, officers of Japan's Kwantung Army detonated explosives on a Japanese-owned railway near Mukden (Shenyang) and blamed Chinese forces, staging the false-flag Mukden Incident as a pretext for invasion.
From 20 to 27 September 2019 the world saw the largest coordinated climate protests in history, a 'Global Week for Future' that drew an estimated 6 to 7.6 million participants across roughly 4,500 locations in more than 150 countries.
On 24 September 2025, the biotechnology firm uniQure reported pivotal trial results showing that its gene therapy AMT-130 slowed the progression of Huntington's disease by roughly 75 percent over three years, the first treatment ever to…