What happened this day in history September 22

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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