On this day in History - Sep. 22

• 0066 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
• 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.
• 1499 - Treaty of Basel: Switzerland became an independent state.
• 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.
• 1586 - English poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney, author of the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, is fatally wounded in a raid against Spanish forces in Zutphen, the Netherlands.
• 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.
• 1644 - Jacques Echard was born. French historian.
• 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.
• 1761 - Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
• 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.
• 1823 - Joseph Smith, Jr. stated that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were stored.
• 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.
  
• 1830 - Juan José Flores assume a presidência do Equador.
• 1851 - The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
• 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.
• 1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.
• 1872 - Vladimir Dal dies (b. 1801). Russian lexicographer.
• 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé dies (b. 1801). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1875 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born (d. 1911). Lithuanian painter and composer.
• 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.
• 1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• 1891 - Hans Albers was born (d. 1960). German actor and singer.
• 1892 - Frank Sullivan was born. Humorist (New Yorker Magazine).
• 1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
• 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.
• 1904 - Ellen Church was birn (d. 1965). American stewardess.
  
• 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.
• 1907 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker was born (b. 1981). British racing driver.
• 1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
• 1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• 1910 - Universidad Nacional de México is founded by Justo Sierra.
• 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.
• 1919 - The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
• 1920 - William H. Riker was born (d. 1993). American political scientist.
• 1920 - Bob Lemon was born (d. 2000). Major League Baseball pitcher.
• 1920 - Eric Baker was born (d. 1976). British human rights activist.
• 1920 - Bob Lemon was born (d. 2000). American baseball player.
• 1920 - William H. Riker was born (d. 1993). American political scientist.
• 1920 - Anders Lassen was born (d. 1945). Danish military officer.
• 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.
• 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher was born. English novelist.
• 1925 - António Aragão was born in São Vicente, Madeira Island(† Funchal, 11 Aug. 2008). Portuguese poet, historian and painter.
• 1927 - Gordon Astall was born. English footballer.
• 1927 - Tommy Lasorda was born. Baseball manager.
• 1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
• 1928 - Eric Broadley was born. British engineer.
• 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.
• 1931 - Manzoor Ahmad was born. Pakistani philosopher.
• 1932 - Ingemar Johansson was born. Swedish, world heavyweight boxing champion.
• 1934 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
• 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 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
• 1939 - Junko Tabei was born. Japananese she was the 1st woman to climb Mount Everest.
• 1939 - Gilbert E. Patterson was born (d. 2007). American minister and presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ.
• 1940 - Anna Karina was born. Danish born actress.
• 1941 - On Jewish New Year Day, German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
• 1942 - David Stern was born. American basketball commissioner.
• 1942 - Portugal: First issue of the newspaper «Diário Popular».
• 1942 - Dan Baker was born. American public address announcer.
• 1942 - David Stern was born. American basketball commissioner.
• 1943 - Toni Basil was born. American singer, dancer, and choreographer.
• 1944 - World War II, Red Army enters Tallinn.
• 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 – World Dance Council inaugurated.
• 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 - Gary Holton was born (d. 1985). English actor and musician.
• 1952 - Paul Le Mat was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg dies (b. 1865). First President of Finland.
  
• 1953 - Ségolène Royal was born. French politician.
• 1953 - Geoff Gilpin was born. American author.
• 1953 - Zezé Polessa was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1954 - Shari Belafonte was born. American singer.
• 1954 - Randy Lanier was born. American racing driver.
• 1955 - In Great Britain, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
• 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 - Nick Cave was born. Australian musician.
• 1957 - Giuseppe Saronni was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1957 - Toyoda Soemu dies (b. 1885). Japanese admiral.
• 1957 - François Duvalier (Papa Doc) is elected President of Haiti.
• 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 - In Chicago, air raid sirens are sounded at 10:30 PM for five minutes. This "sent thousands rushing into the streets and caused near panic in almost every section of the city" in fear of the start of a nuclear war, as the Chicago Tribune later reported. The Chicago White Sox had just won the American League pennant, their first pennant in 40 years, and city officials had ordered the sounding in celebration.
• 1959 - Tai Babilonia was born. American figure skater.
• 1959 - Pope Michael was born. American anti-pope.
• 1960 - The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
• 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 - The U.S. Congress formally authorizes the Peace Corps, which were created in March by an executive order of U.S. president John F. Kennedy.
• 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.
• 1964 - The Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof first opens.
• 1965 - Andy Cairns was born. Irish musician
• 1965 - Tony Drago was born. Maltese snooker player
• 1965 - The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
• 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 - Mike Richter was born. American ice hockey player
• 1966 - Moustafa Amar was born. Egyptian singer
• 1966 - Stefan Rehn was born. Swedish footballer
• 1967 - Félix Savón was born. Cuban boxer
• 1967 - Kim Watkins was born. Australian television presenter
• 1967 - Rickard Rydell was born. Swedish racing driver
• 1968 - Mike Richter was born. American hockey player.
• 1969 - San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays hits his 600th career home run, becoming the first National League player to do so.
• 1969 - Chris Powell was born. English football player
• 1969 - Matt Sharp was born. American Musician (Weezer), (The Rentals)
• 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 footballer
• 1970 - Mystikal was born. American rapper
• 1970 - Rupert Penry-Jones was born. English actor
• 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 Sporting (1993/1997) and Belenenses 2006/2009).
• 1974 - Bob Sapp was born. American boxer and kickboxer.
• 1975 - Mystikal was born. American rapper.
• 1975 - Svilen Noev was born. Bulgarian singer-songwriter.
• 1975 - Ethan Moreau was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 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.
• 1977 - Paul Sculthorpe was born. English rugby league footballer
• 1977 - Yoo Chae-yeong was born. South Korean singer and actress
• 1978 - Ed Joyce was born. Irish-English cricketer
• 1978 - Harry Kewell was born. Australian soccer player
• 1979 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
• 1979 - Emilie Autumn was born. American singer, violinist, and harpsichordist.
• 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 - Iraq invades Iran.
• 1980 - Saint Lucia is admitted in the Pan American Health Organization
• 1980 - Fernanda Tavares was born. Brazilian supermodel.
• 1980 - Liliana Santos was born. Portuguese actress and model.
• 1981 - Adam Lazzara was born. American musician (Taking Back Sunday).
• 1981 - Rocco Baldelli was born. Baseball player.
• 1981 - Harry Warren dies (b. 1893). American composer and lyricist.
• 1982 - Billie Piper was born. English singer and actress.
• 1982 - Kosuke Kitajima was born. Japanese swimmer.
• 1982 - Maarten Stekelenburg was born. Dutch footballer
• 1982 - Mandy Chiang was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
• 1984 - Theresa Fu was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
• 1984 - Thiago Silva was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1985 - The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois, United States.
• 1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
• 1987 - Full House premiered its pilot episode, Our Very First Show (Full House Episode), on the American Broadcasting Company network (ABC Studios). It aired on the ABC Family program.
• 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). Russian born-American songwriter who having written about 1,500 songs.
• 1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
• 1991 - Riccardo Patrese (Equipe Williams) vence o Grande Prémio de Estoril (Portugal) em Fórmula 1.
• 1992 - Aurelio López dies (b. 1948). Baseball player.
• 1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
• 1993 - Maurice Abravanel dies (b. 1903). Greek-born conductor.
• 1994 - Hit US sitcom Friends begins on NBC.
• 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
• 1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which 34 (at least) people died, most of them are ethnic Tamil school children.
• 1995 - Estreia do filme de Manuel de Oliveira, O Convento, com John Malkovitch e Catherine Deneuve
• 1995 - Juliette Goglia was born. American actress.
• 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.
• 2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna) dies (b. 1966). American professional wrestler.
• 2000 - Saburo Sakai dies (b. 1916). Japanese aviator.
• 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 - Pete Schoening dies (b. 1927). American mountaineer.
• 2004 - The Big Boss Man dies (b. 1962). Professional wrestler.
• 2006 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
• 2006 - A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
• 2006 - Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
• 2006 - Edward Albert dies (b. 1951). American actor.
• 2006 - Carla Benschop dies (b. 1950). Dutch basketball player.
• 2007 - Albert Windsor was born. Descendant of British monarch.
• 2007 - Bodinho dies (b. 1928). Brazilian footballer.
• 2007 - Marcel Marceau dies (b. 1923). French mime artist.
• 2008 – Thomas Doerflein dies (b. 1963). German Zookeeper.
• 2009 - Dirce Migliaccio dies (b. 1933). Brazilian actress.
• Bulgaria - Independence Day 1908.
• Mali - Independence Day (from France, 1960).
• OneWebDay is celebrated.
• It has been or still is the feast day of the following saints: Saint Candidus; Saints Digna & Emerita; Saint Emmeramus; Saint Maurice; Saint Phocas; Saint Salaberga; Saint Thomas of Villanueva.
• 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.
• In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.
• Hobbit Day, the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, is observed by fans of J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Municipal holliday in Sardoal (Portugal).
• Brasil: Dia da Juventude, Dia do Amante, Dia do Contador.