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September 22
(Redirected from 22 September) 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, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
- 1601 - Anne of Austria, wife 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 suffrage activist (d. 1958)
- 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, actor, writer, director (d. 1957)
- 1885 - Ben Chifley, former Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1895 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1967)
- 1898 - Katherine Alexander, actress (d. 1981)
- 1902 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)
- 1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
- 1906 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (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)
- 1923 - Dannie Abse, poet and writer
- 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
- 1924 - Charles Keeping, illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
- 1928 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister
- 1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist author
- 1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxing champion
- 1934 - Lute Olson, college basketball coach
- 1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player
- 1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer
- 1946 - King Sunny Ade, reggae singer
- 1947 - Norma McCorvey, best known as Jane Roe
- 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 skating star
- 1961 - Scott Baio, actor
- 1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress
- 1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
- 1966 - Stefan Rehn , Soccer player in Sweden
- 1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- 1969 - Mara Stephens , actor
- 1970 - Mike Matheny, baseball player
- 1971 - Märtha Louise, Princess of Norway
- 1972 - Bob Sapp, American boxer, kickboxer
- 1975 - Mystikal, rap music singer
- 1976 - Ronaldo, football player
- 1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian football player
- 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, baseball player
- 1982 - Billie Piper, singer turned actress
- 1987 - Tom Felton, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Deaths
- 1253 - Dogen Zenji, Japanese founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism and author
- 1253 - (or September 23) King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
- 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English nobleman (b. 1281)
- 1521 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)
- 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)
- 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral in World War II (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
External links
September 21 · September 23 · August 22 · October 22 · more historical anniversaries
Last updated: 10-12-2005 17:46:03
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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