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 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
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