Historical Events on September 22

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• 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 becomes an independent state
• 1504 Settled engagement of Karel of Luxembourg & Claudia the Beaujeu
• 1504 Treaty of Blois: Philip of Burgundy and Maximilian I and Louis XII
• 1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England
• 1586 Battle at Zutphen: Dutch army, assisted by the English, against the Spanish

• 1656 All female jury hears case of Judith Catchpole, accused of killing her child (acquit her) in Patuxent County, Maryland
• 1665 Moliere's "L'amour Medecin" premieres in Paris
• 1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem witch trials
• 1699 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
• 1711 French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro


• 1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig

• 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 King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte
• 1772 1st Partition of Poland is ratified by Austria, Prussia and Russia

• 1784 Russian trappers establish a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska
• 1789 US Congress passes act requiring the first Postmaster General to report to the President through the Secretary of the Treasury
• 1792 French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French king of his powers

• 1851 City of Des Moines, Iowa incorporated as Fort Des Moines
• 1861 Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians

• 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap
• 1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Virginia
• 1866 Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1868 Race riots in New Orleans, Louisiana

• 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right"

• 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

• 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 Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St NYC
• 1921 The League of Nations accepts membership of independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
• 1922 US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
• 1925 Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers
• 1926 Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged

• 1927 Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
• 1931 Coalition Government forms in New Zealand 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 and injures 50 in Cody, Wyoming
• 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
• 1937 Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bibo and Frodo Baggins
• 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 and 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

• 1946 Canadian woman Evelyn Dick charged with butchering her husband in Hamilton, Ontario
• 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant defeating St. Louis Cardinals 94-60
• 1949 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general
• 1953 Islamic uprising in Atjeh, 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 denies this was a spoiler
• 1955 -28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean
• 1957 Western "Maverick" premieres on ABC television starring James Garner
• 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 submarine 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) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
• 1961 Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year

• 1963 Czechoslovakian premier Viliam Široký deposed by Josef Lenart
• 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
• 1964 "Man from U.N.C.L.E." premieres on NBC-TV: open channel D
• 1965 India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect, ending Indo-Pakistani War

• 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 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

• 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1971 OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the US dollar

• 1973 "A Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
• 1973 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 19-13; first time 'Ireland' included in team name
• 1973 Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers
• 1973 Henry Kissinge sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
• 1975 World Football League folds

• 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

• 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

• 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to US Supreme Court
• 1982 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
• 1982 San Francisco's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month

• 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", "The Cosby Show" and Tyne Daly win
• 1985 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson

• 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
• 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov wins individual all-round gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; follows his teams all-round victory; wins 4 gold for the Games
• 1988 American swimmer Janet Evans sets a world record 4:03.85 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; 3rd gold medal of the Games (400m I/M, 800m)
• 1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi wins the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 48.63 at the Seoul Games; beats countryman Chris Jacobs & Stéphan Caron of France
• 1989 Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
• 1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent

• 1990 Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys

• 1991 ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge
• 1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
• 1991 Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500

• 1991 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
• 1992 Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
• 1993 Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma resigns due to the "slow pace of reform"

• 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands

• 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 crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
• 1996 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, St. Pierre Hotel & CC: US retains Cup; beats Europe 17-11; in expanded format US wins 10 of 12 singles matches in final day blowout
• 1997 Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges
• 1997 Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed

• 2002 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Interlachen CC: US regains Cup 15½-12½; Rosie Jones gains winning point in her 3 & 2 victory over Karine Icher
• 2003 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

• 2004 Teen noir series "Veronica Mars" created by Rob Thomas and starring Kristen Bell premieres on UPN in the US
• 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.

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