Historical Events on September 22

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• 530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 530 Discorus begins his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
• 530 St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends
• 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

• 1528 Remaining crew of Spanish Narváez Expedition depart Florida in 5 crude boats destined for Texas, by sailing along the coast, a course disrupted by storms that carry them out to open Gulf of Mexico waters; boats land on barrier islands in early November [1]
• 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 comedic play "L'amour Medecin" premieres for King Louis XIV at Versailles

• 1699 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
• 1711 French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro
• 1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig

• 1753 Pangeran Gusti installed as Sultan of Banten
• 1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University

• 1772 1st Partition of Poland is ratified by Austria, Prussia and Russia

• 1784 Russian trappers establish a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska
• 1788 Losantville, Ohio (now Cincinnati) founded by land speculators Mathias Denman and Colonel Robert Patterson, and surveyor John Filson; the first settlers arrive in December
• 1789 US Congress passes act requiring the first Postmaster General to report to the President through the Secretary of the Treasury
• 1792 Day one of the short-loved French Republican calendar (declared 1793, abandoned 1806)

• 1851 City of Des Moines, Iowa, incorporated as Fort Des Moines
• 1861 Federal troops shoot and kill 12 Navajo men, women and children, and wound 40 more, following a dispute over a friendly horse race during monthly "Ration Day" at Fort Fauntleroy in Bear Springs. Territory of New Mexico [1]

• 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - Confederate General Jubal Early Retreats to Brown's Gap after advance by Union army under General Philip Sheridan

• 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"
• 1890 First known ascent of Mt. Olympus, Washington, by an expedition led by Joseph P. O'Neil [1]

• 1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia kill 10 black people and 2 white
• 1906 In New Zealand Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week
• 1906 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
• 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
• 1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms with an initial 9 team competition
• 1910 The Duke of York's Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today as the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain

• 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

• 1915 Southern Methodist University in 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 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 New York left fielder Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-home runs as the Yankees score an 11-6 home victory over Chicago White Sox
• 1926 Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged

• 1927 New York Yankees Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
• 1931 Coalition Government forms in New Zealand to combat the Depression (their lack of success will lead 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 Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
• 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.
• 1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
• 1943 British dwarf submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz
• 1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks
• 1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229
• 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by the Allies

• 1944 US troops land on Ulithi atoll, western Pacific
• 1946 Canadian woman Evelyn Dick charged with butchering her husband in Hamilton, Ontario
• 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant as Chicago defeats St. Louis Cardinals in second game of a double header
• 1949 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast

• 1953 Islamic uprising in Atjeh, Indonesia
• 1954 Brooklyn Dodger pitcher Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st MLB game
• 1955 -28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in the Caribbean

• 1955 On BBC radio Grace Archer is killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denies this was to spoil the launch of rival network ITV

• 1958 KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the 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 MLB Baltimore Orioles Jim Gentile ties record of 5 grand slams in a single season

• 1963 Czechoslovakian premier Viliam Široký deposed by Josef Lenart
• 1964 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premieres starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum on NBC-TV: open channel D
• 1965 India and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending the 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 the Moon, and all contact with it is lost
• 1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1968 Iraq adopts constitution
• 1968 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1968 Minnesota Twins utility César Tovar pitches a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions in a 2-1 win over Oakland A's at Metropolitan Stadium
• 1969 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
• 1969 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

• 1971 OPEC directs members to negotiate price increases to offset the devaluation of the US dollar
• 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1973 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers

• 1975 World Football League folds

• 1977 Minnesota Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0
• 1977 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht

• 1979 Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
• 1979 Montreal Expo Larry Parrish HRs off Phillies Rawly Eastwick in DH
• 1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway

• 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 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

• 1987 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
• 1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days (2nd regular-season strike)

• 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 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
• 1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent
• 1989 MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs

• 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 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia
• 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands

• 1993 Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma resigns due to the "slow pace of reform"

• 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
• 1997 American sportcaster Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges
• 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.

• 2006 A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
• 2006 Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
• 2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy

• 2012 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow

• 2013 78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan

• 2014 NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars

• 2015 Palangkaraya in Indonesian Borneo records the highest air pollutant index (API) value ever recorded of 1,986 due to haze caused by forest fires deliberately lit to clear land for palm oil plantations

• 2015 Volkswagen admits that 11 million cars have been wrongly programmed to appear to emit lesser emissions than they are
• 2016 Police officer Betty Shelby charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting unarmed black man Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 2018 Four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians

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