1779 – John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero
1845 – Hunger strike in Hague
1857 – Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die
1911 – Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
1927 – “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor, is released (Academy Awards Unique and Artistic Picture 1927)
1944 – Proclamation No. 30 was issued, declaring the existence of a state of war between the Philippines and the United States and the United Kingdom
1970 – Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
1974 – John Lennon’s single “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night”, featuring Elton John, released in US; it was Lennon’s only solo No. 1 single during his lifetime
1979 – Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
1988 – Premiere of director Paul Schrader’s crime biopic “Patty Hearst”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd September 2022
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials
1711 – French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro
1832 – During his HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin discovers a large number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina
1864 – Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Virginia
1915 – Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
1927 – Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
1950 – Omar Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general in the United States Army
1978 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
2013 – 78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2018 – Four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians
Historical Events for 21st September 2022
1776 – Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1934 – St Louis Cardinals pitching Dean brothers shut-out Brooklyn Dodgers in a doubleheader; Dizzy, in a 13-0 rout and Paul, with a 3-0 no-hitter
1943 – Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands
1950 – George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of the United States
1959 – 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
1966 – Five inches of rain falls on NYC
1972 – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines (not publicly announced until 23rd Sep)
1981 – Enterprise Radio (all sports) goes off the air
1988 – East German swimmer Silke Hörner sets world record 2:26.71 to win the 200m breaststroke gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; first of 2 gold (4 x 100m medley relay)
2007 – George Clooney is injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, New Jersey
Historical Events for 20th September 2022
1884 – 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1944 – Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
1954 – Los Stravinsky’s “In Memoriam Dylan Thomas,” premieres in Angeles
1964 – Günter Grass’ play “Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand,” premieres in Berlin
1966 – US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1977 – Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in UN
1994 – Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
2002 – The Kolka-Karmadon rock and ice slide starts in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia
2005 – Model Kate Moss is dropped by clothing chain HandM after allegations of drug taking
2016 – “This Is Us” TV drama premieres in the US starring Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia
Historical Events for 19th September 2022
1863 – Battle of Chickamauga, GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union forces retreat after a couple days of fighting
1933 – NY Giants clinch the pennant
1940 – Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1955 – An army and navy revolt forces Argentine President Juan Perón to resign and flee to Paraguay
1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1984 – Britain and China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
2004 – 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and Allison Janney win
2006 – Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2015 – Farm Aid (30th Anniversary) held in Chicago, Illinois; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Imagine Dragons, Jack Johnson, Kacey Musgraves, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Mavis Staples
2019 – Tropical Depression Imelda hits southeast Texas and Louisiana prompting widespread evacuations
Historical Events for 18th September 2022
1850 – US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1914 – Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1947 – US Department of Defense 1st day of operation
1951 – “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, science fiction film directed by Robert Wise, and starring Michael Rennie, opens
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1983 – Action series “Hardcastle and McCormick” premieres on ABC in the US
1984 – Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1986 – David Boon’s 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
1997 – Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity, the United Nations Foundation
Historical Events for 17th September 2022
1691 – Massachusetts Bay Colony granted new charter
1789 – William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1861 – First class for escaped slaves taught by Mary Peake at Fortress Monroe Virginia (now Hampton University).
1946 – “If the Shoe Fits” opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances
1979 – Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72″)
1986 – Mets clinch NL East Championship
1990 – Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
2000 – Farm Aid 13 held in Bristow, Virginia; performers include Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, CSNandY, Arlo Guthrie, Sawyer Brown, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, North Mississippi Allstars, Barenaked Ladies, and Tipper Gore
2002 – 27th Toronto International Film Festival: “Whale Rider” directed by Niki Caro wins the People’s Choice Award
2018 – 50 girls treated in hospital in Kaya, Burkina Faso after illegal botched circumcisions
Historical Events for 16th September 2022
1597 – French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
1869 – Golf’s 1st recorded hole-in-one by Tom Morris at Prestwick’s 8th hole, Scotland
1901 – French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
1940 – Samuel T Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of US House of Representatives
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, killing at least 1,930
1948 – “Mr Strauss Goes to Boston” closes at Century NYC after 12 performances
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1978 – New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2; at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers 6th win over arch rivals in 2 weeks
2018 – Evian Championship Women’s Golf, Evian Resort GC: At age 40, American Angela Stanford wins her first major title by 1 stroke from Amy Olson, Austin Ernst, Mo Martin and Kim Sei-young
2021 – Earliest evidence announced for humans making clothes discovered from bone tools 100,000 years old found at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco
Historical Events for 15th September 2022
1931 – British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1938 – British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden
1938 – John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1960 – Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time.
1963 – Church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls
1967 – KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 – A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
1973 – Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles
1974 – Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1985 – Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
Historical Events for 14th September 2022
1741 – George Frideric Handel finishes his “Messiah” oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1876 – Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1914 – German troops withdraw from Aisne
1923 – Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1957 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 – Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1981 – Judge Wapner and People’s Court premiere on TV
2009 – David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum’s most significant expansion since 1881
2015 – 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
2017 – Two Islamic State terrorist attacks in Dhiqar province, Southern Iraq, kill at least 60