On this day in History - Sep 22
- 1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians beat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Siauliai.
- 1253 - Dogen dies (b. 1200). Japanese Zen Buddhist.
- 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1281)
- 1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk dies (b. 1366). English politician.
- 1515 - Anne of Cleves was born (d. 1557). Queen (4th wife) of Henry VIII of England.
- 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan dies (b. 1465)
- 1529 -Portugal e Espanha assinam o tratado de Saragoça sobre as ilhas Molucas.
- 1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin was born (d. 1590). German philologist and poet.
- 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado dies. Spanish explorer.
- 1566 - Johannes Agricola dies (b. 1494). German protestant reformer
- 1586 - The battle of Zutphen occurs.
- 1593 - Matthäus Merian was born (d. 1650). Swiss engraver.
- 1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1601 - Anne of Austria was born (d. 1666). Queen of Louis XIII of France.
- 1606 - Li Zicheng was born (d. 1645). Chinese rebel.
- 1607 - Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1535). Italian painter.
- 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer dies (b. 1607). German poet.
- 1662 - John Biddle dies (b. 1615). English theologian.
- 1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes was born (d. 1747). German poet.
- 1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
- 1694 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was born (d. 1773). English statesman and man of letters.
- 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani dies (b. 1622). Italian mathematician and scientist.
- 1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard was born (d. 22 Sep 1715). French geologist and mineralogist who made the first survey to make a geologically map of France and to study the exposed rock strata of the Paris Basin.
- 1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard was born (d. 1786). French physician and scientist.
- 1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin was born (d. 1783). Swedish astronomer.
- 1722 - John Home was born (d. 1808). Scottish writer.
- 1741 - Peter Simon Pallas was born (b. 1811). German zoologist.
- 1743 - Quintin Craufurd was born. British author
- 1750 - Christian Konrad Sprengel was born (d. 7 Apr 1816). German botanist and teacher whose studies of sex in plants led him to a general theory of fertilization which, basically, is accepted today.
- 1765 - Paolo Ruffini was born in Valentano, Papal States, now Italy (d. 10 May 1822). Italian mathematician and physician who made studies of equations that anticipated the algebraic theory of groups.
- 1767 - Nascimento, no Rio de Janeiro, de José Maurício (Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia). Compositor erudito clássico.
- 1769 - Louis Puissant was born. French mathematicien.
- 1774 - Pope Clement XIV dies (b. 1705)
- 1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1777 - John Bartram dies (b. 1699). American botanist.
- 1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 1788 - Theodore Edward Hook was born (d. 1841). English author.
- 1789 - The position of United States Postmaster General established.
- 1791 - Michael Faraday was born (d. 1867). English scientist.
- 1792 - French Republic is proclaimed / É proclamada a República Francesa.
- 1792 - primidi Vendémiaire of year I of the French Republican Calendar
- 1800 - George Bentham was born (d. 10 Sep 1844). British botanist whose classification of seed plants (Spermatophyta), based on an exhaustive study of all known species, served asa foundation for modern systems of vascular plant taxonomy.
- 1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach was born (d. 1897). German historian.
- 1828 - Shaka Zulu dies murdered. Zulu leader / Shaka, chefe dos Zulus, e fundador do Império dos Zulus, no sul da África, é assassinado pelos seus dois meios-irmãos.
- 1829 - Tu Duc was born. Emperor of Vietnam
- 1852 - William Tierney Clark dies (b. 1783). English civil engineer.
- 1862 - Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1866 - Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1872 - Vladimir Dal dies (b. 1801). Russian lexicographer.
- 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé dies (b. 1801). Swiss Federal Councilor.
- 1876 - André Tardieu was born (d. 1945). Prime Minister of France.
- 1877 - Victor Ernest Shelford was born (d. 27 Dec 1968). American zoologist and the most prominent animal ecologist of his generation who was primarily responsible for introducing animals into studies of climax communities and the successions leading to them.
- 1878 - Yoshida Shigeru was born (d. 1967). Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst was born (d. 1958). English suffragist.
- 1881 - Solomon L. Spink dies (b. 1831). U.S. Congressman from Illinois.
- 1882 - Sir George Stapledon was born (d. 16 Sep 1960). British agriculturalist and pioneer in the development of grassland science.
- 1882 - Wilhelm Keitel was born (d. 1946). German field marshal.
- 1885 - Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
- 1885 - Erich von Stroheim was born (d. 1957). Austrian-born actor, writer, and director. (Grand Illusion)
- 1885 - Ben Chifley was born (d. 1951). Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1892 - Frank Sullivan was born. Humorist (New Yorker Magazine)
- 1895 - Paul Muni was born (d. 1967). Polish-born actor (Academy Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez)
- 1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1896 - Henry Segrave was born (d. 1930). British racing driver.
- 1898 - Katherine Alexander was born (d. 1981). American actress.
- 1900 - Paul H. Emmett was born (d. 1985). American chemical engineer.
- 1900 - William Spratling was born (d. 1967). American silversmith.
- 1901 - Charles B. Huggins was born (d. 1997). Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1902 - John Houseman was born (d. 1988). Romanian-born actor and producer.
- 1903 - Joseph Valachi was born (d. 1971). American gangster.
- 1905 - Eugen Sänger was born (d. 10 Feb 1964). German rocket propulsion engineer whose projected "antipodal bomber," with a range far greater than that made possible by its fuel capacity alone, greatly interested the major Western governments and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
- 1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is recognised.
- 1912 - Martha Scott was born (d. 2003). American actress.
- 1915 - Arthur Lowe was born (d. 1982). British actor.
- 1918 - Henryk Szeryng was born (d. 1988). Polish-born violinist.
- 1920 - William H. Riker was born (d. 1993). American political scientist.
- 1920 - Bob Lemon was born (d. 2000). Major League Baseball pitcher.
- 1922 - Chen Ning Yang was born. Chinese-born American physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics with Tsung-Dao Lee, for a ground-breaking theory that the weak force between elementary particles did not conserve parity, thus violating a previously accepted law of physics.
- 1923 - Dannie Abse was born. Welsh poet and writer
- 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher was born. English novelist
- 1924 - Charles Keeping was born (d. 1988). British illustrator.
- 1927 - Tommy Lasorda was born. Baseball manager.
- 1927 - Gordon Astall was born. English football player.
- 1928 - James Lawson was born. American minister and civil rights activist
- 1929 - Serge Garant was born (d. 1986). Québécois pianist, conductor and composer
- 1931 - Fay Weldon was born. British feminist author
- 1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, was born (d. 2003). British politician.
- 1932 - Ingemar Johansson was born. Swedish, world heavyweight boxing champion.
- 1934 - Lute Olson was born. American basketball coach
- 1935 - Harriet King was born. American fencing (Olympic-1972)
- 1936 - Maurice Evans was born (d. 2000). English football player and manager.
- 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1938 - Gene Mingo was born. American football player
- 1939 - Junko Tabei was born. Japananese she was the 1st woman to climb Mount Everest.
- 1940 - Anna Karina was born. Danish born actress.
- 1942 - David Stern was born. American basketball commissioner.
- 1942 - Portugal: Aparecimento nas bancas do primeiro número do jornal «Diário Popular».
- 1943 - Toni Basil was born. American singer, dancer, and choreographer.
- 1945 - Gonzaguinha (Luiz Gonzaga Nascimento Filho) was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian singer and composer.
- 1946 - King Sunny Ade was born. Nigerian singer .
- 1946 - Larry Dierker was born. Baseball player
- 1947 - Robert Morace was born. American writer
- 1948 - Jim Byrnes was born. American actor and musician
- 1948 - Denis Burke was born. Australian politician
- 1948 - Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey dies (b. 8 Aug 1863). American ornithologist and author of popular field guides.
- 1949 - The Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear weapon.
- 1949 - Jim Keith was born (d. 1999). American conspiracy theorist and author
- 1950 - Kirka was born. Finnish singer
- 1950 - Merritt Lyndon Fernald dies (b. 5 Oct 1873) American botanist noted for his comprehensive study of the flora of the northeastern United States.
- 1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
- 1951 - David Coverdale was born. English singer
- 1952 - Bob Goodlatte was born. U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- 1952 - Paul Le Mat was born. American actor
- 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg dies (b. 1865). First President of Finland
- 1953 - Zezé Polessa was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1954 - Shari Belafonte was born. American singer
- 1954 - Randy Lanier was born. American racing driver
- 1956 - Debby Boone was born. American singer
- 1956 - Masayuki Suzuki was born. Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
- 1956 - Frederick Soddy dies (b. 2 Sep 1877). English chemist and physicist who received The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921 for investigating radioactive substances.
- 1957 - Toyoda Soemu dies (b. 1885). Japanese admiral.
- 1957 - Giuseppe Saronni was born. Italian cyclist
- 1957 - Nick Cave was born. Australian musician.
- 1958 - Joan Jett was born. American musician
- 1958 - Andrea Bocelli was born. Italian tenor
- 1958 - Neil Cavuto was born. American television commentator.
- 1958 - Joan Jett was born. American musician
- 1959 - Tai Babilonia was born. American figure skater
- 1960 - Melanie Klein dies (b. 30 Mar 1982). Austrian-born, English psychoanalyst known for her work with young children, in which observations of free play provided insights into the child's unconscious fantasy life, enabling her to psychoanalyze children as young as two or three years of age.
- 1961 - Scott Baio was born. American actor
- 1961 - Bonnie Hunt was born. American actress.
- 1961 - Vince Coleman was born. American baseball player.
- 1961 - Catherine Oxenberg was born. British actress
- 1961 - Marion Davies dies (b. 1897). American actress.
- 1962 - Diogo Mainardi was born. Brazilian writer.
- 1963 - Em Portugal, um decreto-lei estabelece a idade da reforma em 65 anos para os homens e 62 para as mulheres.
- 1965 - Andy Cairns was born. Irish musician
- 1965 - Tony Drago was born. Maltese snooker player
- 1965 - Othmar Ammann dies (b. 26 Mar 1876). Swiss-born American engineer and designer of numerous long suspension bridges as the New York Port Authority's Chief Engineer (1929), including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge over New York harbour, at its completion (1965) the longest single span in the world.
- 1966 - Moustafa Amar was born. Egyptian singer
- 1966 - Stefan Rehn was born. Swedish footballer
- 1967 - Félix Savón was born. Cuban boxer
- 1967 - Rickard Rydell was born. Swedish racing driver
- 1968 - Mike Richter was born. American hockey player
- 1969 - Chris Powell was born. English football player
- 1969 - Adolfo López Mateos dies (b. 1909). President of Mexico.
- 1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
- 1970 - Mike Matheny was born. baseball player
- 1970 - Emmanuel Petit was born. French football player.
- 1970 - Alice Hamilton dies (b. 27 Feb 1869). American pathologist, known for her research on industrial diseases.
- 1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway was born.
- 1971 - Chesney Hawkes was born. British singer.
- 1972 - Eric Freire Gomes (Gaúcho) was born in Recife. Brazilian football player (Now he plays for Rio Ave)
- 1973 - Paulo R. Costinha Melo Castro (Costinha) was born in Braga. Portuguese football player (goalkeeper of U. Leiria).
- 1974 - Bob Sapp was born. American boxer and kickboxer.
- 1975 - Mystikal was born. American rapper.
- 1975 - Svilen Noev was born. Bulgarian singer-songwriter.
- 1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- 1976 - Ronaldo Nazário (Ronaldo) was born. Brazilian footballer.
- 1976 - Portugal became the 19th member State of the Council of Europe / Portugal é admitido no Conselho da Europa.
- 1978 - Harry Kewell was born. Australian footballer
- 1978 - Ed Joyce was born. Irish/English cricketer.
- 1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian football player.
- 1979 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1979 - Otto Robert Frisch dies (b. 1 Oct 1904) Austrian-British nuclear physicist, born in Vienna, who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, described the division of neutron-bombarded uranium into lighter elements.
- 1980 - Saint Lucia is admitted in the Pan American Health Organization
- 1980 - Fernanda Tavares was born. Brazilian supermodel
- 1981 - Adam Lazzara, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
- 1981 - Rocco Baldelli was born. Baseball player
- 1981 - Adam Lazzara was born. American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
- 1981 - Harry Warren dies (b. 1893). American composer and lyricist.
- 1982 - Billie Piper was born. English singer and actress
- 1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
- 1987 - Tom Felton was born. English actor.
- 1987 - Dan Rowan dies (b. 1922). American actor and comedian.
- 1988 - Bethany Dillon was born. American musician
- 1988 - Rais Amrohvi dies (b. 1914). Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst.
- 1989 - Irving Berlin dies (b. 1888). American songwriter.
- 1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
- 1992 - Aurelio López dies (b. 1948). Baseball player.
- 1993 - Maurice Abravanel dies (b. 1903). Greek-born conductor.
- 1995 - Estreia do filme de Manuel de Oliveira, O Convento, com John Malkovitch e Catherine Deneuve
- 1996 - Dorothy Lamour dies (b. 1914). American actress.
- 1996 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff dies (b. 1924). Canadian ballet dancer and director.
- 1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
- 1999 - George C. Scott dies (b. 1927). American actor.
- 2000 - Euronext is founded.
- 2001 - Isaac Stern dies (b. 1920). Ukrainian violinist.
- 2002 - Jan de Hartog dies (b. 1914). Dutch-born writer.
- 2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
- 2003 - Gordon Jump dies (b. 1932). American television actor.
- 2003 - Hugo Young dies (b. 1938). British journalist.
- 2004 - The Big Boss Man dies (b. 1962). Professional wrestler.
- Bulgaria - Independence Day 1908
- It is the feast day of the following saints: Saints Digna & Emerita; Saint Emmeramus; Saint Florentius ; Saint Jonas ; Saint Lauto ; Saint Lioba :Saint Lolanus ;Saint Maurice ;Saint Phocas
- In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
- In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.
- Mali - Independence Day (from France, 1960)
- Municipal holliday in Sardoal (Portugal)
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