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, 479,712 hours 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
1236 –
The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 –
Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
1586 –
Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1784 –
Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
1792 –
Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1927 –
Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1939 –
Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1957 –
In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
1993 –
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
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.
Who were born on September 22?
1922 –
Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 –
James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1929 –
Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
1936 –
Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1942 –
David Stern, American basketball commissioner
1953 –
Richard Fairbrass, English singer
1961 –
Diane Lemieux, Canadian politician
1975 –
Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
1980 –
Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian model
1984 –
Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
Who died on September 22?
1703 –
Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
1774 –
Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
1777 –
John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
1913 –
Tôn Thất Thuyết, the leading mandarin of Vietnam’s Nguyễn Dynasty (b. 1839)
1952 –
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
1957 –
Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1992 –
Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1994 –
Leonard Feather, British jazz pianist, composer, journalist (b. 1914)
2006 –
Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
2010 –
Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)
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