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Events on the 22nd of September in history

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22 Sep 2066 Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
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22 Sep 0480 Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
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22 Sep 0530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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22 Sep 0530 St Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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22 Sep 0530 [Discorus] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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22 Sep 0904 The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
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22 Sep 1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
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22 Sep 1499 Treaty of Basel
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22 Sep 1504 Settle engagement of Karel of Luxembourg and Claudia the Beaujeu
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22 Sep 1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor
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22 Sep 1586 Battle at Zutphen: English vs. Dutch army
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22 Sep 1586 Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
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22 Sep 1598 English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
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22 Sep 1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
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22 Sep 1692 Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem, Massachusetts)
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22 Sep 1692 The last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.
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22 Sep 1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in US
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22 Sep 1699 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
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22 Sep 1711 French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro
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22 Sep 1711 The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
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22 Sep 1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig
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22 Sep 1735 Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street
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22 Sep 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army returns to Edinburgh
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22 Sep 1753 Pangeran Gusti installed as Sultan of Banten
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22 Sep 1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
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22 Sep 1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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22 Sep 1776 Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
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22 Sep 1776 Nathan Hale executed as a spy by the British
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22 Sep 1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska
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22 Sep 1789 Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department
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22 Sep 1789 The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
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22 Sep 1789 Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
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22 Sep 1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress
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22 Sep 1792 Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
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22 Sep 1792 Origin of French Republican Era
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22 Sep 1817 John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State
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22 Sep 1823 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.
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22 Sep 1857 The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
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22 Sep 1861 Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians
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22 Sep 1862 Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
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22 Sep 1862 President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
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22 Sep 1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
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22 Sep 1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Virginia
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22 Sep 1866 Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.
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22 Sep 1868 Race riots in New Orleans, Louisiana
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22 Sep 1869 Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
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22 Sep 1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)
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22 Sep 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
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22 Sep 1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
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22 Sep 1893 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
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22 Sep 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
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22 Sep 1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone
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22 Sep 1905 11th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 314 at Myopia Club, Massachusetts
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22 Sep 1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
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22 Sep 1906 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
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22 Sep 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
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22 Sep 1908 The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
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22 Sep 1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
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22 Sep 1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
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22 Sep 1911 Cy Young beats Pittsburgh 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511
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22 Sep 1911 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game
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22 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9 / 7 / 12)
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22 Sep 1912 Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in a game, for 2nd time in 11 days
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22 Sep 1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico
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22 Sep 1914 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
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22 Sep 1914 German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
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22 Sep 1915 Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series
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22 Sep 1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US opens in New Orleans, Louisiana
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22 Sep 1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
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22 Sep 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.
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22 Sep 1919 Steel strike begins in US
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22 Sep 1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
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22 Sep 1921 Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations
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22 Sep 1921 Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St, New York City
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22 Sep 1925 Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park homers
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22 Sep 1926 Belgian crown Prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged
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22 Sep 1927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
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22 Sep 1927 Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
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22 Sep 1927 Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
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22 Sep 1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
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22 Sep 1935 Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115
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22 Sep 1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody, Wyoming
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22 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
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22 Sep 1939 Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
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22 Sep 1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
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22 Sep 1941 World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
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22 Sep 1942 Meulenberg robs of church bells
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22 Sep 1943 British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz
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22 Sep 1943 Destroyer Itchen torpedoed and sinks
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22 Sep 1943 Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229
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22 Sep 1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
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22 Sep 1944 US troops land on Ulithi
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22 Sep 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
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22 Sep 1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches
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22 Sep 1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband
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22 Sep 1947 Dodgers clinch NL pennant
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22 Sep 1949 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast
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22 Sep 1949 USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb
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22 Sep 1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
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22 Sep 1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general
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22 Sep 1953 Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia
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22 Sep 1954 Brooklyn Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 New York Giants in his 1st game
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22 Sep 1955 (ITV) Commercial TV begins in England
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22 Sep 1955 In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
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22 Sep 1955 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9
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22 Sep 1957 "Maverick" premieres
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22 Sep 1957 In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
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22 Sep 1958 KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
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22 Sep 1958 US nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record)
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22 Sep 1959 Chicago White Sox clinch the AL pennant
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22 Sep 1960 Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
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22 Sep 1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
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22 Sep 1960 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)
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22 Sep 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 minutes
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22 Sep 1962 Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
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22 Sep 1963 Czechoslovakian Premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart)
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22 Sep 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
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22 Sep 1964 "Man from U.N.C.L.E, " premieres on NBC-TV
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22 Sep 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, runs 3,242 performances
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22 Sep 1964 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV
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22 Sep 1965 India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect
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22 Sep 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
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22 Sep 1966 KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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22 Sep 1966 Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon
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22 Sep 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
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22 Sep 1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
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22 Sep 1968 Iraq adopts constitution
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22 Sep 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open
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22 Sep 1968 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
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22 Sep 1968 Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions
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22 Sep 1968 Zond 5 completes flight
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22 Sep 1969 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
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22 Sep 1969 Willie Mays hits his 600 HR off Mike Corkins
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22 Sep 1969 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600
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22 Sep 1970 President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
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22 Sep 1972 Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda
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22 Sep 1973 "Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
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22 Sep 1973 20th Ryder Cup: US, 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland
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22 Sep 1973 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs. Milwaukee Brewers
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22 Sep 1973 "A Little Night Music" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway
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22 Sep 1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
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22 Sep 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco, California
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22 Sep 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
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22 Sep 1975 World Football League folds
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22 Sep 1977 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0
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22 Sep 1977 West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
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22 Sep 1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
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22 Sep 1979 Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
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22 Sep 1979 Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH
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22 Sep 1979 The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
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22 Sep 1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
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22 Sep 1980 Iraq invades Iran.
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22 Sep 1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
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22 Sep 1980 John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffen Records
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22 Sep 1983 Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall)
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22 Sep 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-B
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22 Sep 1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
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22 Sep 1984 Brussels Princess Astrid marries Archduke Lorenz of Austrian-Este
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22 Sep 1985 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney and Lacey, Cosby Show and Tyne Daly win
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22 Sep 1985 Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed
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22 Sep 1985 France Premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior
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22 Sep 1985 Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois
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22 Sep 1985 Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
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22 Sep 1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ
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22 Sep 1985 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
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22 Sep 1986 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
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22 Sep 1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
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22 Sep 1987 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
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22 Sep 1987 Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
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22 Sep 1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
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22 Sep 1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
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22 Sep 1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
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22 Sep 1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs gets his 200th hit in 5 straight seasons
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22 Sep 1988 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
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22 Sep 1988 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
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22 Sep 1989 Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
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22 Sep 1989 IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
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22 Sep 1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits
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22 Sep 1990 Saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
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22 Sep 1991 ABN and AMRO Dutch banks merge
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22 Sep 1991 Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory
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22 Sep 1991 New York MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
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22 Sep 1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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22 Sep 1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
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22 Sep 1991 Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public
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22 Sep 1991 NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne)
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22 Sep 1992 Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
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22 Sep 1993 Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
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22 Sep 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
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22 Sep 1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses President Boris Yeltsin
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22 Sep 1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
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22 Sep 1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
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22 Sep 1994 Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns
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22 Sep 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.
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22 Sep 1995 Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
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22 Sep 1996 4th Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 17-11 at St. Pierre Wales
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22 Sep 1997 Elton John releases Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997"
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22 Sep 1997 Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges
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22 Sep 2013 At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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