September 22
September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). There are 100 days remaining. In the Northern Hemisphere autumn begins at 6:23 P.M. EDT.
Events
- 66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
- 1236 - Lithuanians and Semigallians beat Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Siauliai
- 1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
- 1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 1789 - Position of United States Postmaster General established.
- 1862 - A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.
- 1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
- 1908 - Independence of Bulgaria recognised.
- 1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- 1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
- 1960 - Mali gains independence from France.
- 1961 - Peace Corps is formed.
- 1965 - The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
- 1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
- 1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford.
- 1979 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980 - Iraq invades Iran.
- 1985 - The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois.
- 1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
- 1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
- 1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
- 2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
- 2004 - Autumnal equinox at 16:30
Births
- 1515 - Anne of Cleves, queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
- 1601 - Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
- 1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
- 1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
- 1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
- 1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
- 1791 - Michael Faraday, scientist (d. 1867)
- 1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
- 1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
- 1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, women's suffragist(d. 1958)
- 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, actor, writer, and director (d. 1957)
- 1885 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1895 - Paul Muni, actor (d. 1967)
- 1898 - Katherine Alexander, actress (d. 1981)
- 1900 - William Spratling, silversmith (d. 1967)
- 1902 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Joseph Valachi, gangster (d. 1971)
- 1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
- 1906 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, German concentration camp commander (d. 1967)
- 1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
- 1918 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist (d. 1988)
- 1920 - William H. Riker, political scientist (d. 1993)
- 1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 - Dannie Abse, poet and writer
- 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
- 1924 - Charles Keeping, illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
- 1928 - James Lawson, minister and civil rights activist
- 1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist author
- 1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxer
- 1934 - Lute Olson, American basketball coach
- 1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player
- 1942 - David Stern, American commissioner of the National Basketball Association
- 1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, and choreographer
- 1946 - King Sunny Ade, singer
- 1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
- 1948 - Jim Byrnes, actor and musician
- 1951 - David Coverdale, singer
- 1952 - Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- 1952 - Paul Le Mat, actor
- 1954 - Shari Belafonte, singer
- 1956 - Debby Boone, singer
- 1957 - Nick Cave, musician
- 1958 - Joan Jett, musician
- 1958 - Andrea Bocelli, singer
- 1959 - Tai Babilonia, figure skater
- 1961 - Scott Baio, actor
- 1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress
- 1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
- 1966 - Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
- 1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- 1968 - Mike Richter, hockey player
- 1969 - Mara Stephens, actor
- 1970 - Mike Matheny, baseball player
- 1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- 1971 - Chesney Hawkes, singer
- 1974 - Bob Sapp, American boxer amd kickboxer
- 1975 - Mystikal, rapper
- 1976 - Ronaldo, footballer
- 1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
- 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, baseball player
- 1982 - Billie Piper, singer turned actress
- 1987 - Tom Felton, actor
Deaths
- 1253 - Dogen Zenji, Japanese Zen Buddhist
- 1253 - (or September 23) Wenceslas I, King of Bohemia
- 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
- 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)
- 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
- 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
- 1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader (b. c. 1787)
- 1852 - William Tierney Clark, civil engineer (b. 1783)
- 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801)
- 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
- 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- 1961 - Marion Davies, actress (b. 1897)
- 1987 - Dan Rowan, actor, comedian
- 1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
- 1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
- 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (b. 1914)
- 1999 - George C. Scott, actor (b. 1927)
- 2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
- 2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
Holidays and observances
- Bulgaria - Independence Day 1908
- Goth's Day Out
- It is the feast day of the following saints:
- In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
- In ancient Latvia, the first day of Mikeli, the Catching of Jumis.
- In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.
- Hobbit Day, the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, is observed by fans of J.R.R. Tolkien.
External links
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