21st September in history

Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle, the only player to score a triplet of centuries – a triple hundred in Tests, double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in T20Is, was born on this day in 1979.

Did you know that:

• Sandra Day O’Connor was unanimously approved by the US Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice on this day in 1981, 12 years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second female Supreme Court justice
• It is the International Day of Peace, sometimes officially known as World Peace Day, a United Nations-sanctioned holiday, first celebrated in 1981
• This day is also celebrated as National Pecan Cookie Day in the US