Notable Historical Events on September 22nd
September 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
66 |
Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. |
530 |
Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
530 |
St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends |
530 |
Discorus begins his reign as Catholic anti-Pope |
1236 |
The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Šiauliai. |
1499 |
Switzerland became an independent state. |
1504 |
Settled engagement of Karel of Luxembourg & Claudia the Beaujeu |
1504 |
Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondie & Maximilian I & Louis XII |
1529 |
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England |
1586 |
Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army |
1598 |
Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel. |
1656 |
All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) |
1665 |
Molieres "L'amour Medecin," premieres in Paris |
1692 |
Last (8) people hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass) 20 hanged overall |
1699 |
People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter |
1711 |
French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro |
1733 |
Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig |
1735 |
Robert Walpole is 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street |
1745 |
Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh |
1753 |
Pangeran Gusti installed as sultan of Banten |
1756 |
Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University |
1761 |
Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte. |
1784 |
Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK |
1789 |
US Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department |
1792 |
French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French King of his powers |
1817 |
John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State |
1851 |
The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines. |
1861 |
Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians |
1862 |
President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 |
1864 |
Battle of Fisher's Hill VA-Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap |
1864 |
Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA |
1866 |
Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance. |
1868 |
Race riots in New Orleans La |
1869 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold" premieres in Munich |
1877 |
Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he spoke against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools |
1885 |
Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right". |
1893 |
1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield |
1896 |
Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. |
1903 |
Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone |
1905 |
11th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 314 at Myopia Club Mass |
1905 |
Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed) |
1906 |
Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21 |
1906 |
In New Zealand, Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week |
1908 |
Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey) |
1910 |
Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms |
1910 |
The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. |
1911 |
Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511 |
1912 |
Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9/7/12) |
1913 |
Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico |
1913 |
George Cohan's "Seven Keys to Baldpate" premieres in NYC |
1913 |
The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1914 |
1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die |
1914 |
Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to aiding British in the war against Germany |
1915 |
Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series |
1915 |
Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class |
1915 |
Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA |
1919 |
-Jan 20] Steel strike in the US |
1920 |
Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series |
1921 |
Estonia & Lithuania admitted to League of Nations |
1921 |
Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St NYC |
1925 |
Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers |
1926 |
Belgian crown prince Leopold & Swedish princess Astrid get engaged |
1927 |
Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses to Tunney) |
1927 |
Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1927 |
Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples |
1931 |
In New Zealand, the Coalition Government forms to combat the Depression (their lack of success led to the election of the First Labour Government in 1935) |
1932 |
Hungarian government of Károlyi falls |
1934 |
An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. |
1935 |
Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115 |
1937 |
Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming |
1937 |
Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco. |
1941 |
British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro |
1942 |
Meulenberg robs of church bells |
1943 |
British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz |
1943 |
Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed & sinks |
1943 |
Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229 |
1944 |
Boulogne reoccupied by Allies |
1944 |
Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel |
1944 |
US troops land on Ulithi |
1944 |
President Jose P. Laurel declared the country under martial law in 1944 through Proclamation No. 29 |
1946 |
Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband |
1947 |
Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
1949 |
WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1950 |
Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) |
1950 |
Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general |
1953 |
Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia |
1954 |
Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st game |
1955 |
(ITV) Commercial TV begins in UK; meanwhile on BBC radio Grace Archer is killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denied that this was a spoiler! |
1955 |
-28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean |
1957 |
"Maverick" premieres |
1957 |
Duke Snider's 39th & 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field |
1958 |
KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
US nuclear subne USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) |
1959 |
Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant |
1960 |
Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France |
1961 |
Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min |
1961 |
Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year |
1962 |
Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall |
1963 |
Czechoslovakian premier Široký deposed by Josef Lenart |
1963 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
1964 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 perfs |
1964 |
"Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV |
1965 |
India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect |
1966 |
Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance" premieres in NYC |
1966 |
KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game |
1966 |
Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant |
1966 |
Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon |
1967 |
Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
Iraq adopts constitution |
1968 |
KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open |
1968 |
Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions |
1968 |
Zond 5 completes flight |
1969 |
"Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV |
1969 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1969 |
SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs |
1970 |
Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses |
1971 |
OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the US dollar |
1971 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1972 |
Dictator Idi Amin expels 8,000 Asians from Uganda |
1973 |
"Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway |
1973 |
20th Ryder Cup: US, 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland |
1973 |
Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers |
1973 |
Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State |
1975 |
World Football League folds |
1975 |
2nd assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco |
1976 |
"Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts |
1977 |
Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0 |
1977 |
Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" premieres in NYC |
1977 |
West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht |
1978 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit |
1979 |
Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean |
1979 |
Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH |
1980 |
Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway |
1980 |
John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records |
1981 |
Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court |
1982 |
Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India |
1982 |
SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month |
1983 |
Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall) |
1983 |
NASA launches Galaxy-B |
1983 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983 |
Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" |
1985 |
37th Emmy Awards: Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show & Tyne Daly win |
1985 |
Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson |
1985 |
Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed |
1985 |
France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior |
1985 |
Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois |
1985 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
1985 |
St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man |
1985 |
The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City. |
1986 |
35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm |
1986 |
India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie |
1986 |
LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games |
1987 |
2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins |
1987 |
Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points |
1987 |
Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) |
1987 |
NFL players go on strike for 24 days |
1987 |
Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons |
1988 |
Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin |
1988 |
South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in |
1989 |
Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs |
1989 |
IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent |
1989 |
"Baywatch", starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, debuts on NBC |
1990 |
Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys |
1990 |
Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits |
1991 |
ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge |
1991 |
California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public |
1991 |
Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500 |
1991 |
Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory |
1991 |
NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne) |
1991 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1992 |
Heavy storm in South France, 34 die |
1993 |
Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game |
1993 |
STS-51 (Discovery) lands |
1993 |
Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin |
1993 |
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. |
1994 |
Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns |
1995 |
E-3B AWACS crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed |
1996 |
4th Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 17-11 at St Pierre Wales |
1997 |
Elton John releases Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997" |
1997 |
Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges |
1997 |
Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed. |
1999 |
33rd Country Music Association Award: Shania Twain, Martina McBride & Tim McGraw wins |
2002 |
54th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Friends, Michael Chiklis & Allison Janney win |
2003 |
David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon. |
2006 |
A German maglev train crashes, killing 23. |
2006 |
The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy. |
2006 |
Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut. |
2011 |
CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light |
2012 |
7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow |
2013 |
78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan |
2013 |
65th Prime time Emmy Awards: Breaking Bad and Modern Family win |
2013 |
Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats win a third term with their best result since 1990 in German Federal elections |
2014 |
NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars |
2016 |
French actress Cotillard denies role in Jolie, Pitt split |
2016 |
State of Emergency: Charlotte protests continue for second night |
2016 |
Man fatally shot in Charlotte protests over US police shooting |
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