Today in History for September 1922

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 40 of 40

1st - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
2nd - Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
4th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3)
5th - 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
5th - Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years)
6th - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64)
7th - In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
9th - St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
9th - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
9th - William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
10th - Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
11th - British mandate of Palestine begins
11th - Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
11th - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
11th - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
12th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
13th - 136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
15th - Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
16th - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
16th - Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
17th - Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
17th - Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
18th - 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Neth
18th - Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
18th - Hungary admitted to League of Nations
19th - Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
20th - Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
20th - Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
20th - Franco Ventriglia, Fairfield, Connecticut,opera singer, (d. 2012)
21st - Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
23rd - B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany
23rd - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
24th - Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
24th - Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
25th - Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
27th - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 28th - Benito Mussolini marches on Rome
29th - Benito Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program
30th - Government of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece
30th - Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 54 of 54

1st - Melvin R Laird, (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
1st - Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)
1st - Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress (10 Commandments, Munsters)
3rd - Rosendo Ejercito Santos, composer
4th - Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician (d. 1992)
7th - Arthur Ferrante, pianist/composer (Ferrante & Tachere-Exodus)
7th - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer
7th - Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
8th - Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate (1980)
8th - Sid Caesar, Yonkers NY, comedian (Your Show of Shows)
9th - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
9th - MacKenzie John, pipe major
9th - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
9th - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
11th - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
12th - Jackson Mac Low, composer
12th - Viscount Allendale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
12th - Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002)
13th - Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
13th - Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
14th - Michel Auclair, [Vujovic], Germany, actor (Story of a Love Story)
15th - Bob Anderson, English Olympic Fencer, renowned film fight choreographer (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings) (d.2012)
16th - Janis Paige, Tacoma Wash, actress (Lanigan's Rabbi, Trapper John MD)
16th - Marcel Mouloudji, singer
17th - Agostinho Neto, poet/president Angola [or Dec 27]
17th - Naomi Datta, geneticist
17th - Ursula Howells, London, actress (Girly, Murder is Announced)
18th - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
18th - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
19th - Catherine Mary Hall, nurse
19th - Damon [Francis] Knight, US, sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier)
19th - Dana Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1952)
19th - Emil Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, 5K/10K/marathon (Olympic-gold-1952)
20th - David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician
20th - David Nicolson, businessman/politician
20th - Frank Comstock, SD California, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
20th - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
21st - Lode Backx, Flemish pianist
22nd - Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
23rd - Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator
24th - Cornell MacNeil, US, singer/actor (La Traviata)
24th - David Lane, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
24th - Theresa Merritt, Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
25th - John Farr, British MP
25th - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
26th - Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
27th - Arthur Penn, Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde)
27th - Carl Ballantine, actor (McHale's Navy)
27th - James Wilson, composer
28th - Joe Silver, Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
28th - Phyllis Friend, chief nursing officer (DHSS)
29th - Lizabeth Scott, Scranton, Pa, actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
30th - Allan Rae, cricketer (prolific WI opening batsman 1948-53)
30th - Alan Stretton, Australian general

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

2nd - "Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw
28th - Stage and film actor James Cagney (23) weds dancer Frances Vernon

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

4th - Georges Sorel, French social philosopher, dies at 74
5th - Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
10th - Arpad Szendy, composer, dies at 59
11th - Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52
21st - Tom Armitage, cricketer (England lob bowler v Australia 1877), dies
28th - Andrejs Jurjans, composer, dies at 65
30th - Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 64