About September 22
September 22, 2024 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.
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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 129 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.
- 1598 –English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1692 –Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- 1761 –George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776 –Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1789 –The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1851 –The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1862 –Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1896 –Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1910 –The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1927 –Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1955 –In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1957 –In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
- 1979 –The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980 –Iraq invades Iran.
- 1991 –The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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