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What happened in history on this day: September 22?
On September 22 in ...
- 1692 - Last person hanged for witchcraft in US.
- 1789 - US Congress establishes the Office of Postmaster General within the Treasury Department.
- 1817 - John Quincy Adams becomes US Secretary of State.
- 1835 - Benjamin Towns of Athens, Georgia, contracts to build the Dahlonega Mint for $33,450.
- 1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln issues an executive order, declaring freedom for all slaves in any state in the Confederacy that did not return to USA control by January 1, 1863.
- 1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
- 1868 - Race riots in New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1905 - Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 10 blacks and two whites killed.
- 1913 - Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson, New Mexico, USA.
- 1915 - Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) holds its first class.
- 1919 - Steel strike begins in US.
- 1937 - Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming.
- 1950 - Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of five-star general.
- 1964 - Fiddler on the Roof opens on Broadway; runs 3,242 performances.
- 1970 - US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses.
- 1973 - Henry Kissinger, a German immigrant, is sworn in as America's first Jewish Secretary of State.
- 1975 - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate US President Gerald Ford in San Francisco, California.
- 1984 - Disney's board of directors meets to vote on filling executive positions. They vote unanimously to hire Michael Eisner as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Ray Watson, and Frank Wells as President and Chief Operating Officer. Eisner's contract gives him US$750,000 per year, US$750,000 signing bonus, annual bonus two percent above company net growth of nine percent, and over two million share options at US$14.359 each. Wells' contract gives him US$400,000 per year, US$250,000 signing bonus, annual bonus equal to fifty percent of Eisner's, and options on 460,000 shares.
- 1985 - Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Illinois.
- 1985 - Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.
- 1985 - Death of Axel Springer, founder of Alex Springer Verlag publisher, in West Berlin, Germany.
- 1992 - The Stardust Hotel casino in Las Vegas loses $225,000 cash and $283,000 in casino tokens, probably the largest theft in Las Vegas history.
- 1993 - Barge Mauvilla on Mobile River bumps into a rail bridge; the Los Angeles - Miami train hits a kink in the rail and derails, killing 42 of 202 passengers plus 5 crew.
- 1995 - American millionaire Steve Forbes announces his candidacy for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
- 2001 - A ship and a barge collide at Barbour's Cut in La Porte, Texas, USA, leaking about 137,000 litres of fuel oil into the channel.
- 2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes American International Group from its index, replacing it with Kraft Foods.
- 2008 - Microsoft unveils plans to spend US$40 billion buying back its shares from investors, the biggest single buy-back plan in history.
- 2014 - The United States and several Arab partners begin their airstrike campaign in Syria.
Births on September 22
- 1901 - Birth of Allan "Rocky" Lane in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA; actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder).
- 1913 - Birth of Leroy Holmes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; orchestra leader (The Tonight Show, 1956-57).
- 1914 - Birth of Martha Scott in Jamesport, Missouri, USA; actress (Dallas, Bionic Woman, Our Town).
- 1919 - Birth of Jack Russell in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA; singer (Your Show of Shows).
- 1936 - Birth of Art Metrano in Brooklyn, New York, USA; comedian (Amy Prentiss, Joanie Loves Chachi).
- 1954 - Birth of Shari Belafonte Harper in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Julie - Hotel).
- 1956 - Birth of Debby Boone in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA; singer ("You Light Up My Life").
- 1957 - Birth of Lynn Herring in Enid, Oklahoma, USA; actress (Lucy - General Hospital).
- 1957 - Birth of Mark Johnson in Madison, Wisconsin, USA; NHL forward (Olympic-gold-1980, Pittsburgh Penguins, New Jersey Devils).
- 1960 - Birth of Joan Jett in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; singer (Blackhearts - "I Love Rock 'n Roll").
- 1960 - Birth of Scott Baio in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Joanie loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped).
- 1962 - Birth of Rob Stone in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Kevin - Mr Belvedere).
- 1969 - Birth of Melissa Lynn Costello in Shenandoah, West Virginia, USA; Miss West Virginia-America (1991).
Deaths on September 22
- 1965 - Death of Othmar Herman Ammann in Rye, New York, USA; bridge engineer (Queensboro bridge, Hell Gate Bridge, George Washington Bridge in New York City; Lincoln Tunnel, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco; chief engineer of the Port of New York Authority (1930-37), New York director of engineering (1937-39)).
- 1989 - Death of Irving Berlin AKA Israel Isidor Baline at age 101 following a heart attack; songwriter ("There's No Business Like Show Business", "God Bless America", "White Christmas", Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1968)).
- 1999 - Death of George Campbell Scott at age 71 of a ruptured aortic aneurism; actor (Patton (1977), East Side, West Side).
- 2010 - Death of Eddie Fisher at age 82 in Berkeley, California, USA; singer, teen idol in the 1950s ("Thinking of You", "Oh! My Pa-Pa").
- 2013 - Death of David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (born 1926).
- 2015 - Death of Yogi Berra, American baseball player (born 1925).
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