On this day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 22:
0130 Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar
1290 Bilbo Baggins (in Shire Reconning)
1694 Lord Chesterfield letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752)
1791 Michael Faraday discovered principle of electric motor
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)
1833 Stephen Dill Lee, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1908
1842 Abdul-Hamid II 34th sultan of Turkey (lost Romania & Serbia)
1882 Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal
1885 Erich von Stroheim early film director/actor (Grand Illusion)
1892 Frank Sullivan humorist (New Yorker Magazine)
1895 Paul Muni actor (Acad Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez)
1901 Allan "Rocky" Lane Mishawaka Ind, actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder)
1902 John Houseman Bucharest Romania, actor (Kingsfield-Paper Chase)
1912 Alfred G Vanderbilt thoroughbred horse owner (Native Dancer)
1918 Henryk Szeryng Zelazowa Wola Poland, violinist (Brahms Concerto)
1922 Chen Ning Yang China, physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
1924 Norvel Lee US, light-heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 Tom Lasorda baseball manager (LA Dodgers)
1932 Ingemar Johansson Sweden, world heavyweight boxing champ (1952)
1939 Junko Tabei Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest
1942 William C Nelson, rep/astronaut (STS 24)
1949 David Coverdale rocker (Whitesnake-Here We Go Again)
1949 Harold Carmichael NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1954 Shari Belafonte Harper NYC, actress (Julie-Hotel)
1956 Debby Boone Hackensack NJ, singer-had her life lit up
1957 Mark Johnson Madison WI, NHL forward (Olympic-gold-1980, Pitts, NJ)
1960 Joan Jett Phila, singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll)
1960 Scott Baio Bkln, (Joanie loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped)
1961 Catherine Oxenberg actress (Dallas)
1969 Melissa Lynn Costello Shenandoah WV, Miss WV-America (1991)
Deaths which occurred on September 22:
1408 Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
1520 Selim I, captured Baghdad/Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), dies at 53
1554 Coronado dies, without finding the fabled cities of gold
1776 Captain Nathan Hale, American patriot, was executed by the British for spying.
1828 Shaka South African Zulu king, dies
1923 Marquess of Ripon game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse
1987 Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65
1989 Irving Berlin composer, dies at 101
1996 Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81
1997 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 KNOCHEL CHARLES A. LAFAYETTE IN.
1968 KUHLMANN CHARLES F. NEW BRITAIN CT.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 01 SEPT 95]
1968 WRIGHT BUDDY
[10/06/68 ESCAPED]
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On this day...
0530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0530 St Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0530 [Discorus] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1656 The General Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impanels the first all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith Catchpole, who is accused of murdering her child. The jury acquits her after hearing her defense of never having been pregnant.
1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in US
1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig
1735 Robert Walpole is 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street
1776 Nathan Hale executed as a spy by the British
1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress
1792 Origin of French Republican Era
1817 John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State
1862 President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
1868 Race riots in New Orleans La
1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)
1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone
1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1911 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game
1912 Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in a game, for 2nd time in 11 days
1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico
1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
1918 General Allenby leads the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa and Nazareth, Palestine
1919 Steel strike begins in US
1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
1925 Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park homers
1927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
1937 Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
1943 British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz
1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches
1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband
1949 USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb
1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general
1955 Commercial TV begins in England
1955 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9
1957 "Maverick" premieres
1960 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)
1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes the 1st "double" crossing swim of the English Channel in 43 hrs. 10 min
1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, runs 3,242 performances
1964 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV
1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
1968 Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions
1968 Zond 5 completes flight
1969 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600
1970 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1972 Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda
1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as Secretary of State
1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in SF Calif
1975 World Football League folds
1978 Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ
1985 Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs gets his 200th hit in 5 straight seasons
1988 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
1989 IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
1990 Saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits
1991 Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public
1993 Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Ancient Egyptian New Year
Mali : Independence Day (1960)
Wheaton, Illinois : Autumn Harvest Festival
National Tie Week (Day 2)
National Dog Week (Day 2)
National Ballroom Dance Week (Day 4)
Classical Music Month
Religious Observances
RC Digna & Merita, martyrs
RC Florentius, hermit to Mont Glonne
Religious History
1601 The first (Catholic) priests of the newly established Christian Church in Japan -- Sebastian Chimura and Aloysius Niabara -- were ordained in their hometown of Nagasaki.
1692 During the famous Salem Witch Trials, the last 8 "witches" were hanged in Massachusetts. When the turmoil finally settled, 13 women and 7 men had been executed, and over 150 others remained in jail through the next summer.
1827 The angel Moroni reportedly revealed the golden tablets (containing the "Book of Mormon") to Joseph Smith. They were hidden near the family farm, in Palmyra, NY. Smith's English translation of their strange hieroglyphics became the literary foundation for the new Mormon religion.
1871 Death of Charlotte Elliott, 82, English devotional writer and author of the enduring hymn, "Just As I Am." (A serious illness at 33 had left her an invalid her remaining 50 years.)
1950 Basil and Esther Miller incorporated World-Wide Missions in California. Headquartered today in Pasadena, this evangelical missions agency specializes in providing relief and medical aid to over 30 countries worldwide.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
Things You Wouldn't Hear a Southerner Say...
I'll have grapefruit instead of biscuits and gravy
How Many Dogs Does it Take to Change Light Bulb?
Poodle: I'll just blow in the Border Collie's ear and he'll do it.
By the time he finishes rewiring the house, my nails will be dry.
The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
Computer Resources:
The major item of any budget, allowing for the acquisition of any capital equipment that is obsolete before the purchase request is released.
Things you would like to say at work, but won't...
I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce
