AT&T announced plans to split its operations into three companies: communications services, communications equipment, and computers. AT&T's core telephone service will be provided by the communications services company, which will retain the powerful AT&T brand name.

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel. It was published in 1937 to widespread critical acclaim, earning it a Carnegie Medal nomination and a New York Herald Tribune award for best juvenile fiction. The book is still widely read and considered a classic in children's literature.

The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to declare the Day a period of nonviolence and cease-fire. The United Nations invites all nations and people to observe a cessation of hostilities on the Day, as well as to commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on peace issues.

Herbert George Wells, born on September 21, 1866, was an English writer. He was a prolific writer of many genres, having written over fifty novels and dozens of short stories. Nonfiction works by him included social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is now best known for his science fiction novels, for which he has been dubbed the "Father of Science Fiction."

Kwame Nkrumah PC was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who lived from 21 September 1909 to 27 April 1972. He was Ghana's first Prime Minister and President, leading the country to independence from Britain in 1957. Nkrumah, a prominent proponent of Pan-Africanism, was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

Sir Allen Lane CH (21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who founded Penguin Books in 1935 with his brothers Richard and John Lane, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.

Christopher Henry Gayle, OD (born September 21, 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who has represented the West Indies since 1999. Gayle, a destructive batter, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Twenty20 batsmen of all time, and by some as the best ever. He was a key member of the West Indies teams that won the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, and the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novelist from the United States. His books have sold over 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. He is known as the "King of Horror," a play on his surname and a reference to his celebrity in pop culture. King has written 64 novels, seven of which were published under the pen name Richard Bachman, as well as five non-fiction books. He has also written about 200 short stories, the majority of which have appeared in book collections.