It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

Events

• 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
• 1236 - The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of ?iauliai.
• 1499 - Switzerland became an independent state.
• 1586 - The battle of Zutphen occurs.
• 1598 - Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
• 1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
• 1761 - Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
• 1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
• 1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
• 1789 - The position of United States Postmaster General established.
• 1792 - primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar
• 1823 - Joseph Smith, Jr. stated that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were stored.
• 1851 - The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
• 1862 - Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
• 1866 - Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
• 1885 - Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
• 1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
• 1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
• 1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• 1908 - The independence of Bulgaria is recognised.
• 1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• 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 - An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Peńa Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
• 1941 - On Jewish New Year Day, German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
• 1944 - World War II, Red Army enters Tallinn.
• 1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
• 1955 - In Britain, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
• 1960 - The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
• 1965 - The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965/Second Kashmir 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 U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
• 1979 - The South Atlantic Flash or Vela Incident is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
• 1980 - Iraq invades Iran.
• 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.
• 1995 - E-3B AWACS crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
• 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 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
• 2006 - A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
• 2006 - Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.

Births

• 1515 - Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
• 1547 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
• 1593 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
• 1601 - Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
• 1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
• 1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
• 1694 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)
• 1715 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
• 1717 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
• 1722 - John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
• 1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
• 1743 - Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
• 1765 - Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
• 1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
• 1791 - Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
• 1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
• 1829 - T? ??c, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
• 1875 - Mikalojus Konstantinas ?iurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
• 1876 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
• 1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
• 1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
• 1882 - Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
• 1885 - Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
• 1885 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
• 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)
• 1889 - Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
• 1891 - Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
• 1895 - Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
• 1896 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
• 1898 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1900 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
• 1900 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
• 1901 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
• 1902 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
• 1903 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
• 1904 - Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
• 1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
• 1907 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
• 1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1912 - Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor
• 1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
• 1918 - Hans Scholl, member of The White Rose (d. 1943)
• 1918 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
• 1920 - Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)
• 1920 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1920 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
• 1920 - Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
• 1922 - Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1923 - Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
• 1924 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
• 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
• 1927 - Gordon Astall, English footballer
• 1927 - Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
• 1928 - Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)
• 1928 - James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
• 1928 - Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1929 - Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
• 1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
• 1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
• 1931 - Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
• 1932 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1934 - Lute Olson, American basketball coach
• 1936 - Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
• 1938 - Gene Mingo, American football player
• 1939 - Gilbert E. Patterson, American minister and presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ (d. 2007)
• 1940 - Anna Karina, Danish born actress
• 1941 - Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
• 1942 - David Stern, American basketball commissioner
• 1943 - Toni Basil, American singer
• 1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
• 1946 - Dan Baker, American public address announcer
• 1946 - Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
• 1947 - Robert Morace, American writer
• 1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
• 1948 - Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
• 1949 - Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
• 1949 - Jim McGinty, Australian politician
• 1950 - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
• 1951 - David Coverdale, English singer
• 1952 - Bob Goodlatte, American politician
• 1952 - Paul Le Mat, American actor
• 1952 - Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
• 1953 - Ségolčne Royal, French politician
• 1953 - Geoff Gilpin, American author
• 1954 - Shari Belafonte, American singer, actor, model
• 1954 - Randy Lanier, American racing driver
• 1955 - Jeffrey Leonard, Major League baseball player
• 1956 - Debby Boone, American singer
• 1956 - Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
• 1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
• 1957 - Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
• 1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
• 1958 - Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
• 1958 - Joan Jett, American musician
• 1959 - Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
• 1959 - Pope Michael, American anti-pope
• 1961 - Scott Baio, American actor
• 1961 - Vince Coleman, American baseball player
• 1961 - Dr. Liam Fox, British Conservative politician
• 1961 - Bonnie Hunt, American actress
• 1961 - Catherine Oxenberg, British actress
• 1962 - Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
• 1964 - Randy Lanier, American car racer, marijuana smuggler and convicted felon
• 1965 - Andy Cairns, Irish musician
• 1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
• 1965 - Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
• 1966 - Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
• 1966 - Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
• 1966 - Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
• 1967 - Matt Besser, American comedian
• 1967 - Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver
• 1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
• 1967 - Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter
• 1969 - Chris Powell, English footballer
• 1969 - Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
• 1970 - Mike Matheny, American baseball player
• 1970 - Mystikal, American rapper
• 1970 - Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
• 1970 - Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
• 1971 - Chesney Hawkes, English singer
• 1971 - Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
• 1972 - Dana Vespoli, American porn actress
• 1974 - Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
• 1974 - Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
• 1975 - Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
• 1976 - Ronaldo Nazario da Lima, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 - Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer
• 1978 - Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
• 1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
• 1979 - Emilie Autumn, American singer, violinist, and harpsichordist
• 1979 - Michael Graziadei, American actor
• 1980 - Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
• 1981 - Ashley Drane, American actress
• 1981 - Adam Lazzara, American singer (Taking Back Sunday)
• 1981 - Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, dancer, actor (Kanjani8)
• 1982 - Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1982 - Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
• 1982 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
• 1984 - Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1984 - Ross Jarman, Drummer The Cribs
• 1984 - Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
• 1984 - Eduardo Rubio, Mexican pilot and pianist
• 1985 - Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
• 1987 - Tom Felton, English actor
• 1988 - Bethany Dillon, American musician
• 1995 - Juliette Goglia, American actress
• 2007 - Albert Windsor, descendant of British monarch

Deaths

• 1072 - Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
• 1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
• 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
• 1399 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
• 1520 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
• 1539 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469
• 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
• 1566 - Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
• 1607 - Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
• 1658 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
• 1662 - John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
• 1692 - Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials
• 1703 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
• 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
• 1775 - Matthew Wright, executed for killing Pope Clement XIV
• 1776 - Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)
• 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
• 1828 - Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
• 1852 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
• 1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
• 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
• 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
• 1914 - Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)
• 1952 - Kaarlo Juho Stĺhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
• 1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1961 - Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1969 - Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)
• 1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
• 1987 - Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
• 1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
• 1989 - Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
• 1992 - Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
• 1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
• 1996 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)
• 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
• 1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
• 2000 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
• 2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
• 2002 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
• 2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
• 2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
• 2006 - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
• 2007 - Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
• 2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Annually on September 22 OneWebDay is celebrated.
• In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
• Some Latter-Day Saints recognise it as "Trumpet Day," or the day that Joseph Smith received the golden plates, which later became The Book of Mormon, from the angel Moroni.
• RC Saints - It has been or still is the feast day of the following saints:
  • Saint Candidus
  • Saints Saint Digna & Saint Emerita
  • Saint Emmeramus
  • Saint Maurice
  • Saint Phocas
  • Saint Salaberga
  • Theban Legion
  • Saint Thomas of Villanueva
• French Republican Calendar - Raisin (Grape) Day, first day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Bulgaria - Independence Day (from The Ottoman Empire) 1908.
• Mali - Independence Day (from France, 1960).
• In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.

Also see September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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