September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56). It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
NATIONAL ICE CREAM CONE DAY
480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
NATIONAL ICE CREAM CONE DAY
480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
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 for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Last words: "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
1823 – Mormon Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1823 – Mormon Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
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.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 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.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, now known as the Vela incident, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. The unidentified "double flash" of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979, near the Prince Edward Islands off Antarctica, which many believe was of nuclear origin. Its cause is never determined.
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.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 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.
1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, now known as the Vela incident, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. The unidentified "double flash" of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979, near the Prince Edward Islands off Antarctica, which many believe was of nuclear origin. Its cause is never determined.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama (Big Bayou Canot), causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1995 – 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.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1995 – 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.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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