September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 100 days remain until the end of the year. It is frequently the day of the autumnalequinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
1586 – The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1692 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released.
1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 – Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
1866 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1892 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 – World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1948 – Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1948 – Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.[1]
1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An 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.
1995 – The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Births[]
1013 – Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary (d. 1075)
1211 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (d. 1282)
1373 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
1515 – Anne of Cleves (d. 1557)
1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1590)
1552 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. 1612)
1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and cartographer (d. 1650)
1601 – Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France (d. 1666)[2]
1606 – Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (d. 1645)
1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1773)
1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French mineralogist and botanist (d. 1786)
1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (d. 1811)
1743 – Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (d. 1819)
1762 – Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1822)
1788 – Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (d. 1841)
1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (d. 1867)
1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian and academic (d. 1897)
1829 – Tự Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
1833 – Stephen D. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1908)
1835 – Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (d. 1891)
1841 – Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (d. 1902)
1862 – Anastasios Charalambis, Greek lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1949)
1868 – Louise McKinney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1931)
1870 – Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (d. 1966)
1870 – Arthur Pryor, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1942)
1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
1876 – André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 67th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (d. 1958)
1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1883 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
1883 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (d. 1957)
1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library (d. 1940)
1885 – Ben Chifley, Australian engineer and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1957)
1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1891 – Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (d. 1978)
1892 – Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1975)
1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (d. 1976)
1895 – Paul Muni, Ukrainian-born American actor (d. 1967)
1896 – Uri Zvi Greenberg, Ukrainian-Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
1896 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (d. 1930)
1899 – Elsie Allen, Native American Pomo basket weaver (d. 1990)[3]
1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)
1900 – William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)
1901 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (d. 1932)
1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1905 – Eugen Sänger, Czech-Austrian engineer (d. 1964)
1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (d. 2003)
1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (d. 1981)
1907 – Hermann Schlichting, German engineer and academic (d. 1982)
1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
1909 – John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (d. 1983)
1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet and author (d. 2006)
1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and academic (d. 2011)
1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
1913 – Lillian Chestney, American painter and illustrator (d. 2000)
1915 – Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2012)
↑Helen Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, Andrew Griffin, Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing, Ashgate Publishing, 2009, p.91.