September 22

September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). There are 100 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays

Events

66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
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.
1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
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 - A nuclear bomb test occurs near Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic, apparently carried out by South Africa.
1980 - Iraq invades Iran.
1985 - The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois.
1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
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.

Births

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, directory (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
1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
1928 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister
1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxing champion
1934 - Lute Olson, college basketball coach
1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer
1946 - King Sunny Ade, reggae singer
1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
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
1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
1969 - Mara Stephens, actor
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
1987 - Tom Felton, actor

Deaths

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, songwriter (b. 1888)
1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (b. 1914)
1999 - George C. Scott, actor (b. 1927)
2001 - Isaac Stern, violinist (b. 1920)
2003 - Gordon Jump, actor, "Maytag Repairman" (b. 1932)
2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist, columnist and political commentator (b. 1938)

Holidays

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.

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