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September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). There are 100 days remaining.
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 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
- 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
- 1980 - Iraq invades Iran
- 1985 - The Farm Aid concert took place in Champaign, Illinois.
- 1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City
- 1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia
- 2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
Births
- 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)
- 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)
- 1906 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (d. 1967)
- 1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- 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
- 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 - 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
- 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
- 1987 - Tom Felton, actor
Deaths
- 1521 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)
- 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 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)
- 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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