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1520Sep 22Selim I, Sultan of Turkey (1512-20), died at 53.
1665Sep 22Moliere’s “L’amour Medecin,” premiered in Paris.
1692Sep 22The last person was hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1711Sep 22French troops occupied Rio de Janeiro.
1735Sep 22Robert Walpole became the 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street.
1745Sep 22Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army returned to Edinburgh.
1789Sep 22Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov drove the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha from the Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia.
1792Sep 22The first French Republic was proclaimed.
1850Sep 22An earthquake in Sichuan, China, killed some 300,000 people.
1868Sep 22Race riots took place in New Orleans, La.
1869Sep 22Richard Wagner’s opera “Das Rheingold” premiered in Munich.
1893Sep 22Bicycle makers Charles and Frank Duryea showed off the first American automobile produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
1905Sep 22Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia killed 10 blacks and 2 whites.
1906Sep 22Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia, killed 21 people.
1908Sep 22Bulgaria declared independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
1913Sep 22Coal mine explosion killed 263 at Dawson, New Mexico.
1915Sep 22Xavier University, the first African-American Catholic college, opened in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1920Sep 22Chicago grand jury convened to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series.
1923Sep 22Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, died, after shooting his 52nd grouse.
1929Sep 22Communist and Nazi factions clashed in Berlin.
1932Sep 22The government of the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd officially changed its name to Saudi Arabia.
1938Sep 22The musical comedy revue “Hellzapoppin’,” starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, began a three-year run on Broadway.
1943Sep 22The Destroyer Keppel sank U-229.
1944Sep 22The Allies reoccupied Boulogne.
1946Sep 22Evelyn Dick was charged with butchering her husband.
1947Sep 22A Douglas C-54 Skymaster made the first automatic-pilot flight over the Atlantic.
1953Sep 22An Islamic uprising against Jakarta took place in Atjeh (Aceh), Indonesia.
1957Sep 22The TV series “Maverick” premiered on ABC. It starred James Garner as Maverick and Jack Kelly as brother Bart Maverick.
1958Sep 22The nuclear submarine USS Skate remained a record 31 days under the North Pole.
1959Sep 22The first telephone cable linking Europe and the United States was inaugurated.
1960Sep 22Mali became an independent republic. Pres. Modibo Keita was elected the first president and introduced a one-party dictatorship.
1961Sep 22Marion Davies, actress (Not So Dumb, 5 & 10), died of cancer at 64.
1964Sep 22The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opened at Imperial Theater on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
1966Sep 22Edward Albee’s “Delicate Balance,” premiered in NYC.
1970Sep 22Abdul Razak (1922-1976) became Malaysia’s 2nd prime minister.
1980Sep 22Solidarity formally was founded, when delegates of 36 regional trade unions met in Gdansk, Poland, and united under the name Solidarnosc.
1982Sep 22San Francisco’s famous cable cars made a final run before closing down for a 20-month, $60 million renovation.
1985Sep 22Rock and country music artists participated in FarmAid, a concert staged in Champaign, Ill., to help the nation’s farmers. The first Farm Aid concert was held to support problems facing US farmers and their families.
1987Sep 22On Wall Street, the stock market surged higher. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75.23 points (the largest one-day gain recorded to that time), closing at 2,568.05.
1989Sep 22Irving Berlin, one of America’s most prolific songwriters, died in New York City at age 101.
1990Sep 22Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yemeni and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh, accusing them of unspecified “activities jeopardizing the peace and security of the kingdom.”
1991Sep 22California’s Huntington Library said it would make microfilm copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public.
1993Sep 22President Clinton previewed his health care reform package in an address to a nationally broadcast session of Congress.
1994Sep 22The United States stepped up its military control of Haiti, breaking up heavy weapons, guarding pro-democracy activists and giving U.S. troops more leeway to use force.
1996Sep 22Reform Party nominee Ross Perot denounced the decision to exclude him from the presidential debates, telling NBC that Bob Dole had “poisoned the attitude” of millions of independent voters that Republicans desperately needed to win.
1997Sep 22Elton John released his Diana tribute “Candle in the Wind 1997.”
1998Sep 22In NYC Mohammad Khatami, Pres. of Iran, said that the 10-year fatwa (religious edict for the death of Rushdie) over author Salman Rushdie is “completely finished.”
2000Sep 22The Cincinnati Symphony premiered “The Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra” by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The work was commissioned by 27 orchestras.
2001Sep 22President Bush consulted at length with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the United States mustered a military assault on terrorism in the wake of Sept. 11.
2002Sep 22The White House drama “The West Wing” won its third consecutive Emmy as best drama series; Jennifer Aniston won for best actress in Friends, which won for the best comedy series.
2003Sep 22California signed into law a privacy bill, effective Jul 1, 2004, that prevents use of vehicle recorded data without the consent of the owner. GM began installing data boxes in the 1970s.
2004Sep 22The US FCC fined CBS $550,000 for Janet Jackson’s Feb 1 breast exposure.
2004Sep 22In Iraq kidnappers seized 4 Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country’s mobile phone company.
2005Sep 22John Roberts’ nomination as chief justice cleared the US Senate Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan vote of 13-5.
2006Sep 22US President George W. Bush and Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf met at the White House for key anti-terror talks jarred by his public critiques of US strategy.
2007Sep 22At least 25,000 textile workers defied a ban on protests in emergency-ruled Bangladesh to demand back-pay and bonuses in one of the country’s biggest industrial zones.
2008Sep 22Group of Seven (G7) nations welcomed the $700 billion US markets bailout plan and said they were prepared to step up international cooperation to protect the world’s financial and banking system.
2009Sep 22The Massachusetts state Senate approved a bill allowing the appointment of a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. The measure had passed the House last week.
2010Sep 22NYC officials said 59 taxi drivers have been arrested for manipulating their meters to double the fare rate.
2011Sep 22In northern and central California some 23,000 nurses associated with Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente went on a one-day strike.
2012Sep 22Demonstrators in the US and other countries took part in the “Global Frackdown,” in protests against the natural gas drilling process known as fracking.
2013Sep 22A US Navy MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter crashed in the central Red Sea with five military personnel on board. 3 of 5 crew members were accounted for and stable. Two remained missing.
2014Sep 22The Obama administration announced rules to stop companies from moving headquarters abroad to avoid taxes.

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