This Day in History for 22nd September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 184

66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
530 - Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
530 - St Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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 lays-off English Lord Chancellor
1586 - Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army
1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
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) person hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass)
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 Charlies army returns to Edinburgh
Playwright & Poet Ben Jonson 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 - Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
1792 - 1st First French Republic forms
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
Composer Richard Wagner 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
1908 - Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
1910 - England's 1st aircraft flight
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 "7 Keys to Baldpate," premieres in NYC
1914 - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
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)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey 1927 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1927 - Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
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 Itchen torpedoed & sinks
1943 - Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229
1944 - Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
1944 - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
1944 - US troops land on Ulithi
1946 - Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband
1947 - Dodgers clinch NL pennant
1949 - USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb
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 England
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 sub 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
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan 1962 - Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
1963 - Czechoslovakian premier Sikory 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 233

130 - Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar
1290 - Bilbo Baggins, (in Shire Reconning)
1515 - Anne of Cleves, Düsseldorf, Queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII
1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
1601 - Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III
1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 - Lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752)
1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
1720 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
1722 - John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
1729 - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer
1733 - Anton Filtz, composer
1738 - Dionysius G Van de Keessel, lawyer (Theses Selectae)
1741 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist (Siberia/Krim)
1743 - Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
1757 - Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings)
1765 - Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
1791 - Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor
1796 - Ret Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
1822 - Brig Gen Eppa Hunton, fought in most ANV campaigns
1827 - John Grubb Parke, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1829 - William Worth Belknap, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Tự Đức, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
1833 - Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908
1849 - John Godden, English explorer (Curacao)
1860 - Heinrich Reitsch, composer
1864 - Louis Van Deyssel, writer (Small Republic, One Love)
1870 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer
1872 - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer
1875 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer
1876 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 - Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM (most of 1946-54)
1880 - Asser B Kleerekoper, journalist/2nd-Member of parliament (SDAP)
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1882 - Emil Abranyi, composer
1882 - Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal
1883 - Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer
1884 - Minerva Urecal, CA, actress (Accent on Love, Crazy Knights)
1885 - Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor (Grand Illusion)
1885 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
1885 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1887 - Hobart Cavanaugh, US, actor (Border Town, Black Angel)
1888 - Sophia J W "Sophie" Hermse, actress (Vorstenschool)
1889 - Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1890 - Ferdinand Gonseth, Swiss mathematician/philosopher
1891 - Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor (Residence Orch)
1892 - Billy West, Russia, actor (Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Frank Sullivan, humorist (NYer Magazine)
1892 - Hans Albers, Hamburg Germany, actor (Blue Angel)
1894 - Hieronim Feicht, composer
1894 - Johnnie Gough, Boston MA, actor (Smooth as Satin, Circus Kid)
1895 - Babette Deutsch, US poet (Animal vegetable mineral)
1895 - Paul Muni, actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez)
1896 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
1898 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
1900 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
1901 - Allan "Rocky" Lane, Mishawaka Ind, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder)
1901 - Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher
1902 - F R Boschvogel, [French LJ Ramon], Flemish writer (War of Worlds)
1902 - John Houseman, Bucharest Romania, actor (Kingsfield-Paper Chase)
1903 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
1904 - Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
1906 - Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor
1907 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
1909 - David Riesman, US sociologist (Lonely Crowd)
1910 - Klement Slavicky, composer
1912 - Alfred G Vanderbilt, thoroughbred horse owner (Native Dancer)
1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
1913 - Leroy Holmes, Pittsburgh Pa, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57)
1914 - Martha Scott, Jamesport Mo, actress (Dallas, Bionic Woman, Our Town)
1915 - Arthur Lowe, Hayfield England, actor (Captain Mainwaring-Dad's Army)
1917 - Peter Adams, LA CA, actor (Alternative)
1918 - Archibald James Potter, composer
1918 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose)
1918 - Henryk Szeryng, Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist (Brahms Concerto)
1919 - Jack Russell, Saratoga Springs NY, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1920 - Bob Lemon, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)/manager (NY Yankees, 1978)
1920 - Ismay Thomas, teacher
1920 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1920 - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
1923 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
1924 - Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician
1924 - Norvel la Follette Ray Lee, lt-HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1924 - Sieto Hoving, actor (Holiday in Havana, Palm Beach Story)
1924 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
1925 - Virginia Capers, Sumter SC, actress (White Mama, Original Intent)
1926 - William O Smith, composer
1927 - Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, (Rep-D-Texas, 1965- )
Baseball Manager Tom Lasorda (1927) 1927 - Tom Lasorda [Thomas], Norristown, Pennsylvania, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)
1927 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
1928 - Eugene Roche, Boston MA, actor (Foul Play, Slaughterhouse Five)
1928 - Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1984 - Brussels Princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austrian-Este at Church of Our Lady of "De Zavel
1991 - American Jewish playwright and screenwriter David Mamet marries 2nd wife, English actress Rebecca Pidgeon
2007 - "Desperate Housewives" actor Ricardo Chavira (36) weds longtime girlfriend Marcea Dietzel in San Antonio, Texas
2008 - TV personality and glamour model Kendra Wilkinson (24) weds Philadelphia Eagles NFL player Hank Baskett (26) at Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2000 - Actress Patsy Kensit (32) divorces Oasis singer Liam Gallagher (28) due to unreasonable behaviour after 3 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 102

1072 - Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
1197 - Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies
1253 - Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53
1286 - Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60
1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
1392 - Aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22
1392 - Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, murdered
1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
1408 - Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies
1520 - Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53
1531 - Louise Van Savoye, French regent of king Francois I, dies at 55
1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469
1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
1566 - John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister, dies
1607 - Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72
1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
1702 - Hoessein Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (peace of Karlowitz), dies
1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
1712 - Jose Solana, composer, dies at 69
1737 - Francesco Mancini, composer, dies at 65
1737 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer, dies at 69
1774 - Clement XIV, [Giovanni Ganganelli], Pope (1769-74), dies
1776 - Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21
1796 - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
1796 - Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63
1814 - A W Iffland, writer, dies
1826 - J P Hebel, writer, dies at 66
1828 - Shaka, South African Zulu king, dies
1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
1865 - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist, dies at 71
1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
1880 - G F Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia), dies
1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
1890 - Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79
1914 - Alain-Fournier, French writer (Grand Meaulnes), dies in battle at 27
1923 - Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse
1927 - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44
1935 - Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86
1944 - "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
1949 - Sam Wood, US communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
1952 - Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62
1952 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
1953 - William Brann, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa), dies
Nobel Laureate Chemist Frederick Soddy (1956) 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1959 - Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet (Le grand jeu), dies at 60
1959 - Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
1959 - Josef Matthias Hauer, composer, dies at 76
1960 - Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78
1961 - Marion Davies, actress (Not So Dumb, 5 & 10), dies of cancer at 64
1963 - Fred Le Roux, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder in only Test), dies
1969 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico, dies at 59
1971 - Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67
1971 - Yvonne St Clair, dancer, dies at 57
1972 - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53
1975 - Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75
1975 - Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1978 - Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1985 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
1987 - Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27
1987 - Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65
1987 - John F "Jaco" Pastorius, rock guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
1987 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
1989 - Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
1989 - Jan Teulings, Dutch actor/director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies
1991 - Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies
1991 - Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash
1992 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1993 - Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89
1994 - Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79
1994 - John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80
1994 - Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69
1995 - Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89
1995 - Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82
1995 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81
1996 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer, dies at 72
1996 - Mohammed Ben Amhed Abdelghani, PM of Algeria (1979-84), dies
1997 - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76
1997 - Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77
1997 - George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61
1997 - Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
1997 - Shoichi Yokoi, Jap WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82
1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2000 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)