What are the important events that happened on September 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 22 is the 266th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 9, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,726,963,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontahexagon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 129 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,293 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 22: This Day In History
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
September 22 Historical Events
- 66 –Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
- 1236 –The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1692 –Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- 1761 –George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1885 –Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1955 –In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1979 –The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1991 –The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 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.
- 2011 –CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
Who were born on September 22?
- 1887 –Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, social activist and educationist in Maharashtra, India (d. 1959)
- 1904 –Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
- 1920 –William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
- 1930 –P. B. Sreenivas, Indian Play-back singer
- 1932 –Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
- 1939 –Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer, first female to summit Mount Everest
- 1949 –Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
- 1965 –Andy Cairns, Irish musician
- 1976 –David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter
- 1989 –Hyoyeon, South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
Who died on September 22?
- 1072 –Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
- 1399 –Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
- 1607 –Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
- 1828 –Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
- 1952 –Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
- 1989 –Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
- 1994 –Leonard Feather, British jazz pianist, composer, journalist (b. 1914)
- 2002 –Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
- 2003 –Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
- 2010 –Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
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