About September 22
September 22, 2021 is the 265th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Virgo is the sun 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 132 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 22: More About This Day
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
What Happened On September 22
- 1499 –Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
- 1692 –Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- 1792 –Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1851 –The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1866 –Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1885 –Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1888 –The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- 1908 –The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
- 1910 –The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1919 –The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
- 1927 –Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1934 –An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- 1941 –World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 1944 –World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
- 1955 –In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1957 –In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
- 1960 –The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1980 –Iraq invades Iran.
- 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.
- 2003 –David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
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