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September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). There are 100 days remaining. In the Northern Hemisphere autumn begins at 6:23 P.M. EDT.

Events

66 - Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.

1236 - Lithuanians and Semigallians beat Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Siauliai

1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.

1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.

1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.

1789 - Position of United States Postmaster General established.

1862 - A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.

1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.

1908 - Independence of Bulgaria recognised.

1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.

1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear weapon.

1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

1960 - Mali gains independence from France.

1961 - Peace Corps is formed.

1965 - The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.

1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

1979 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

1980 - Iraq invades Iran.

1985 - The Farm Aid concert takes place in Champaign, Illinois.

1985 - The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.

1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.

1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

1997 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.

2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

2004 - Autumnal equinox at 16:30

Births

1515 - Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)

1601 - Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)

1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)

1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)

1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)

1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)

1791 - Michael Faraday, scientist (d. 1867)

1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)

1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)

1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, women's suffrage activist (d. 1958)

1885 - Erich von Stroheim, actor, writer, director (d. 1957)

1885 - Ben Chifley, former Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)

1895 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1967)

1898 - Katherine Alexander, actress (d. 1981)

1902 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)

1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)

1906 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (d. 1967)

1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)

1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)

1918 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist (d. 1988)

1920 - William H. Riker, political scientist (d. 1993)

1923 - Dannie Abse, poet and writer

1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist

1924 - Charles Keeping, illustrator (d. 1988)

1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager

1928 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister

1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist author

1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)

1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxing champion

1934 - Lute Olson, college basketball coach

1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player

1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer

1946 - King Sunny Ade, reggae singer

1947 - Norma McCorvey, best known as Jane Roe

1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician

1951 - David Coverdale, singer

1952 - Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia

1952 - Paul Le Mat, actor

1954 - Shari Belafonte, singer

1956 - Debby Boone, singer

1957 - Nick Cave, musician

1958 - Joan Jett, musician

1958 - Andrea Bocelli, singer

1959 - Tai Babilonia, figure skating star

1961 - Scott Baio, actor

1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress

1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player

1966 - Stefan Rehn, Soccer player in Sweden

1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer

1969 - Mara Stephens, actor

1970 - Mike Matheny, baseball player

1971 - Märtha Louise, Princess of Norway

1972 - Bob Sapp, American boxer, kickboxer

1975 - Mystikal, rap music singer

1976 - Ronaldo, football player

1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian football player

1981 - Rocco Baldelli, baseball player

1982 - Billie Piper, singer turned actress

1987 - Tom Felton, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)