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 265^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 9, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,308,320 minutes 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 ‘dihectahexacontapentagon’ 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 148 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 4,658 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 1499 –
  Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
• 1586 –
  Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
• 1789 –
  The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
• 1823 –
  Joseph Smith, Jr. 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.
• 1862 –
  Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
• 1866 –
  Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
• 1934 –
  An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
• 1993 –
  A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
• 1994 –
  the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.

Who were born on September 22?

• 1722 –
  John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
• 1898 –
  Katharine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
• 1905 –
  Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
• 1910 –
  György Faludy, Hungarian poet (d. 2006)
• 1925 –
  Virginia Capers, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1943 –
  Toni Basil, American singer
• 1946 –
  Dan Baker, American public address announcer
• 1949 –
  James Cartwright, American military general
• 1958 –
  Christian Dozzler, blues, boogie woogie and zydeco multi-instrumentalist and singer from Austria, now based in Dallas/Fort Worth
• 1965 –
  Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player

Who died on September 22?

• 1253 –
  Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
• 1566 –
  Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
• 1662 –
  John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
• 1703 –
  Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
• 1776 –
  Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)
• 1992 –
  Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
• 1993 –
  Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
• 1999 –
  George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 –
  Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
• 2007 –
  Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)