September 22
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September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in
leap years). There are 100 days remaining.
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Events
\n*66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.\n*1236 - Lithuanians and Semigallians beat Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Siauliai\n*1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.\n*1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.\n*1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.\n*1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.\n*1789 - Position of United States Postmaster General established.\n*1862 - A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.\n*1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.\n*1893 - The first Americann-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.\n*1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.\n*1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear weapon.\n*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.\n*1960 - Mali gains independence from France.\n*1961 - Peace Corps is formed.\n*1965 - The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.\n*1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.\n*1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford.\n*1979 - A nuclear bomb test occurs near Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic, apparently carried out by South Africa.\n*1980 - Iraq invades Iran.\n*1985 - The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois.\n* 1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.\n*1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.\n*1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.\n*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)\n*1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)\n*1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)\n*1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)\n*1791 - Michael Faraday, scientist (d. 1867)\n*1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)\n*1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)\n*1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, women's suffrage activist (d. 1958)\n*1885 - Erich von Stroheim, actor, writer, directory (d. 1957)\n* 1885 - Ben Chifley, former Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)\n*1895 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1967)\n*1898 - Katherine Alexander, actress (d. 1981)\n*1902 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)\n*1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)\n*1906 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (d. 1967)\n*1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)\n*1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)\n*1918 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist (d. 1988)\n*1920 - William H. Riker, political scientist (d. 1993)\n*1923 - Dannie Abse, poet and writer\n*1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist\n*1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager\n*1928 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister\n*1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist author\n*1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)\n*1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxing champion\n*1934 - Lute Olson, college basketball coach\n*1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer\n*1946 - King Sunny Ade, reggae singer\n*1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician\n*1951 - David Coverdale, singer\n*1952 - Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia\n* 1952 - Paul Le Mat, actor\n*1954 - Shari Belafonte, singer\n*1956 - Debby Boone, singer\n*1957 - Nick Cave, musician\n*1958 - Joan Jett, musician\n*1958 - Andrea Bocelli, singer\n*1959 - Tai Babilonia, figure skating star\n*1961 - Scott Baio, actor\n*1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress\n* 1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player\n*1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer\n*1969 - Mara Stephens, actor\n*1971 - Märtha Louise, Princess of Norway\n*1972 - Bob Sapp, American boxer, kickboxer\n*1975 - Mystikal, rap music singer\n*1976 - Ronaldo, football player\n*1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian football player\n*1981 - Rocco Baldelli, baseball player\n*1987 - Tom Felton, actor
Deaths
\n* 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English nobleman (b. 1281)\n* 1521 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)\n* 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)\n* 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)\n* 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)\n* 1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader (b. c. 1787)\n* 1852 - William Tierney Clark, civil engineer (b. 1783)\n* 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801)\n* 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)\n* 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral in World War II (b. 1885)\n* 1961 - Marion Davies, actress (b. 1897)\n* 1987 - Dan Rowan, actor, comedian\n* 1989 - Irving Berlin, songwriter (b. 1888)\n* 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (b. 1914)\n* 1999 - George C. Scott, actor (b. 1927)\n* 2001 - Isaac Stern, violinist (b. 1920)\n* 2003 - Gordon Jump, actor, "Maytag Repairman" (b. 1932)\n* 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist, columnist and political commentator (b. 1938)
Holidays
\n*In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.\n*In ancient Latvia, the first day of Mikeli, the Catching of Jumis.
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