September 22
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September 22 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining after September 22 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1515 – Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557).
- 1552 – Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612).
- 1601 – Anne of Austria, Queen Consort of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666).
- 1606 – Li Zecheng, Chinese Emperor (d. 1645).
- 1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822).
- 1791 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867).
- 1829 – Tu Duc, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1883).
- 1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian poet (d. 1902).
- 1875 – Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911).
- 1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967).
- 1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette (d. 1958).
- 1885 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951).
- 1891 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960).
- 1901 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian scientist (d. 1997).
- 1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (d. 2009).
- 1905 – Eugen Saenger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964).
- 1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003).
- 1918 – Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943).
- 1922 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist.
- 1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, American novelist.
- 1931 – Fay Weldon, British feminist and author.
- 1932 – Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (d. 2010).
- 1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009).
- 1939 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountain climber.
- 1941 – Anna Karina, Danish actress.
- 1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor.
- 1943 – Toni Basil, American singer.
- 1953 – Segolene Royal, French politician.
- 1954 – Shari Belafonte, American singer, actress and model.
- 1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian operatic tenor.
- 1958 – Joan Jett, American rock singer.
- 1960 – Scott Baio, American actor.
- 1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress.
- 1964 – Liam Fox, British politician.
- 1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, British actor.
- 1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer.
- 1971 – Princess Martha-Louise of Norway, Princess of Norway.
- 1971 – Chesney Hawkes, English singer.
- 1976 – Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer.
- 1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer.
- 1982 – Billie Piper, British singer and actress.
- 1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer.
- 1985 – Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer.
- 1987 – Tom Felton, British actor.
- 1989 – Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player.
[change] Deaths
- 1253 – Dogen Zenji, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
- 1253 – (or September 23) Wenceslas I, King of Bohemia
- 1345 – Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
- 1520 – Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- 1539 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- 1554 – Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)
- 1566 – Johannes Agricola, German protestant reformer (b. 1494)
- 1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622)
- 1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 1777 – John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
- 1828 – Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader (b. c. 1787)
- 1828 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (b. 1760)
- 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)
- 1914 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886).
- 1952 – Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
- 1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1957 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- 1961 – Marion Davies, actress (b. 1897)
- 1969 – Adolfo Lopez Mateos, President of Mexico (b. 1909)
- 1987 – Dan Rowan, actor, comedian (b. 1922)
- 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)
- 2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Thomas Doerflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
- 2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1924)
[change] 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.
- 1994 – The first episode of Friends aired on NBC.
- 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.
[change] Observances
- Independence Day in Mali
- September Equinox in some years (Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring in the Southern Hemisphere)
