September 22
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[edit] Births
- 1515 - Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England.
[edit] Deaths
- 1253 - Dogen Zenji, Japanese Zen Buddhist
- 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)
- 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)
- 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (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)
[edit] 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.
- 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