On This Day: September 21st

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.