What happened on September 22? There are more than 304 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 22
September 22 is the 266th day of the year 2024. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 38th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Boston, Massachusetts 02203 sunrise will occur at 06:31 AM and sunset will occur at 06:42 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 129 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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September 22: A Day In History
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
Historical Events For September 22
- 66Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
- 1236The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1499Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
- 1586Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
- 1598English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1692Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- 1761George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1784Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 1789Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1789The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1792Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1823Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
- 1851The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1862Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1866Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1869Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
- 1885Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1888The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- 1896Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1908The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
- 1910The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1919The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
- 1927Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1934An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- 1937Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1939Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
- 1941World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 1944World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
- 1955In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1957In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
- 1960The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1965The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
- 1975Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- 1979The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980Iraq invades Iran.
- 1991The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 1993A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1993A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
- 1994the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.
- 1995An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
- 1995Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
- 2003David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
- 2011CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
Who Were Born On September 22?
- 1515Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
- 1547Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
- 1593Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
- 1601Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
- 1606Li Zicheng, emperor of China (d. 1645)
- 1680Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
- 1694Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)
- 1715Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
- 1717Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
- 1722John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
- 1741Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
- 1743Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
- 1765Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
- 1788Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
- 1791Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
- 1819Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
- 1829Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
- 1868Louise McKinney, Canadian politician and women’s rights activist (d. 1931)
- 1869Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (d. 1953)
- 1870Arthur Pryor American trombonist & bandleader (d. 1942)
- 1875Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
- 1876André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1878Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
- 1880Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
- 1882Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- 1885Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1885Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)
- 1885Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
- 1887Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, social activist and educationist in Maharashtra, India (d. 1959)
- 1889Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
- 1891Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
- 1892Billy West (silent film actor), American silent film actor (d. 1975)
- 1894Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano opera singer(d. 1976)
- 1895Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
- 1896Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
- 1896Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
- 1898Katharine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1900Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
- 1900William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
- 1901Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
- 1902John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
- 1902Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
- 1903Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
- 1904Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
- 1905Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
- 1905Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (d. 2009)
- 1907Hermann Schlichting, German fluid dynamics engineer (d. 1982)
- 1907Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
- 1909John Engstead, American photographer (d. 1983)
- 1910György Faludy, Hungarian poet (d. 2006)
- 1912Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor
- 1912Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1915Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
- 1918Hans Scholl, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
- 1918Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
- 1920Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
- 1920Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1920Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)
- 1920William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
- 1922Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1923Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
- 1924Bernard Gauthier, French road racing cyclist
- 1924Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1924Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
- 1925Virginia Capers, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1926Bill Smith (jazz musician), clarinetist and composer
- 1926Leila Hadley, American travel writer and socialite (d. 2009)
- 1927Colette Deréal, French singer and actress (d. 1988)
- 1927Gordon Astall, English footballer
- 1927Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
- 1928Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)
- 1928Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1928James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
- 1929Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
- 1930Joni James, American singer of traditional pop music
- 1930P. B. Sreenivas, Indian Play-back singer
- 1931Fay Weldon, British feminist author, essayist and playwright
- 1931George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1931Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
- 1932Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
- 1933T. Cullen Davis, American oil heir and accused murderer
- 1934Jack McGregor, American lawyer and politician
- 1934Lute Olson, American basketball coach
- 1936Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
- 1938Gene Mingo, American football player
- 1939Gilbert Earl Patterson, American minister (d. 2007)
- 1939Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer, first female to summit Mount Everest
- 1940Anna Karina, Danish born actress
- 1941Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Bulgarian soprano
- 1941Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
- 1942David Stern, American basketball commissioner
- 1942George Erik Rupp, American educator and theologian
- 1942Marlena Shaw, American singer
- 1943Paul Hoffert, recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive, co-founder of the group Lighthouse
- 1943Toni Basil, American singer
- 1944Brian Gibson, British film director (d. 2004)
- 1946Dan Baker, American public address announcer
- 1946King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
- 1946Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
- 1947Robert Morace, American writer
- 1948Denis Burke, Australian politician
- 1948Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
- 1949James Cartwright, American military general
- 1949Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
- 1949Jim McGinty, Australian politician
- 1950Kirill “Kirka” Babitzin, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
- 1951David Coverdale, English singer
- 1952Bob Goodlatte, American politician
- 1952Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
- 1952M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai politician, current Governor of Bangkok
- 1952Paul Le Mat, American actor
- 1953Richard Fairbrass, English singer
- 1953Ségolène Royal, French politician
- 1954Randy Lanier, American racing driver and convicted drug trafficker
- 1954Shari Belafonte, American singer, actor, model
- 1955Jeffrey Leonard, Major League baseball player
- 1956David Krakauer, clarinetist known for his klezmer compositions
- 1956Debby Boone, American singer
- 1956Doug Wimbish, American bass guitar player
- 1956Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
- 1956Robert Bowlin, American bluegrass and country musician
- 1957Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
- 1957Johnette Napolitano, American musician
- 1957Nick Cave, Australian musician
- 1958Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
- 1958Christian Dozzler, blues, boogie woogie and zydeco multi-instrumentalist and singer from Austria, now based in Dallas/Fort Worth
- 1958Joan Jett, American rock-and-roll singer
- 1958Lynn Herring, American actress
- 1958Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
- 1959Pope Michael, American anti-pope
- 1959Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
- 1960Ernest Martin, American convicted murderer (d. 2003)
- 1960Scott Baio, American actor
- 1961Bonnie Hunt, American actress
- 1961Catherine Oxenberg, British actress
- 1961Diane Lemieux, Canadian politician
- 1961Marq Torien, American Rock singer (BulletBoys)
- 1961Michael Torke, American composer
- 1961Vince Coleman, American baseball player
- 1962Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
- 1962Normand D'Amour, Canadian actor
- 1964Dr. Liam Fox, British politician
- 1964Juha Turunen, Finnish politician turned criminal
- 1964Ken Vandermark, American jazz saxophone and clarinet player
- 1965Andy Cairns, Irish musician
- 1965Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
- 1965Robert Satcher, American Astronaut
- 1965Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
- 1966Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
- 1966Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
- 1966Ruth Jones, Welsh Actress
- 1966Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
- 1967Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- 1967Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter
- 1967Matt Besser, American comedian
- 1967Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver
- 1969Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
- 1969Sue Perkins, English comedienne
- 1969Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer
- 1970Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
- 1970Mike Matheny, American baseball player
- 1970Mystikal, American rapper
- 1970Rupert Penry-Jones, British actor
- 1971Chesney Hawkes, English singer
- 1971Elizabeth Bear, American author
- 1971Kostas Kaiafas, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1971Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- 1973Blake Sennett, guitarist, keyboardist and singer for indie rock bands Rilo Kiley and The Elected
- 1974Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
- 1975Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
- 1975Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975Roberto Flores, Chicano rapper and music producer
- 1975Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
- 1976David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter
- 1977Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer
- 1978Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
- 1978Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
- 1979Emilie Autumn, American singer and musician
- 1979Michael Graziadei, American actor
- 1979Swin Cash, American basketball player
- 1980Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian model
- 1980Ray Foley, Irish radio personality
- 1981Ashley Eckstein, American film and television actress
- 1981Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer (Kanjani8)
- 1982Billie Piper, English singer and actress
- 1982Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
- 1982Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
- 1982Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1984Eduardo Rubio, Chilean footballer
- 1984Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
- 1984Ross Jarman, drummer (The Cribs)
- 1984Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1984Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1985Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
- 1985Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
- 1985Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
- 1985Rima Fakih, Lebanese/American beauty pageant contestant
- 1987Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987Stefan Denifl, Professional cyclist
- 1987Tom Felton, English actor
- 1988Bethany Dillon, American musician
- 1989Cœur de pirate, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1989Hyoyeon, South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
- 1989Sabine Lisicki German tennis player
- 1990Denard Robinson, American football player
- 1993Chase Ellison, American actor
- 1999Tallan Latz, American blues guitarist
Who Died On September 22?
- 1072Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
- 1253Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
- 1345Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1281)
- 1399Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
- 1520Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- 1539Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
- 1554Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
- 1566Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
- 1607Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
- 1658Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
- 1662John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
- 1692Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials
- 1703Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
- 1774Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 1776Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)
- 1777John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
- 1828Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
- 1852William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
- 1868Byakkotai, A group of 19 young Japanese with the samurai corps of Aizu-Han who committed suicide.
- 1872Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
- 1873Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
- 1881Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
- 1913Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (b. 1839)
- 1914Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)
- 1952Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
- 1956Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1957Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- 1961Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1969Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)
- 1973Paul Van Zeeland, Belgian economist and politician (b. 1893)
- 1981Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
- 1987Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
- 1988Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
- 1989Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
- 1992Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
- 1993Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
- 1994Leonard Feather, British jazz pianist, composer, journalist (b. 1914)
- 1996Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
- 1996Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)
- 1999George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2000Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
- 2001Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
- 2002Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
- 2003Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
- 2003Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
- 2004Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
- 2004Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
- 2006Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
- 2006Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
- 2007Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
- 2007Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
- 2008Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)
- 2010Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
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