September 22 is the 266th day of the year. There are 100 days remaining until the end of the year.
1862 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation to become effective on January 1, 1863
1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. For good measure, here’s a picture of the Duke of York that is probably not being shown in Brighton.
1927 Famous "Long Count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney in 10)
1950 MO-boy Omar N. Bradley is promoted to rank of General of the Army with 5 stars on the Michelin scale.
1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche for negotiating the 1949 Arab-Israeli Armistice
1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 3242 performances. Here are the understudies fiddling on the roof.
1964 "Man from U.N.C.L.E", a spine-tingling thriller about gay secret agent lovers, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin battling the forces of lust and evil, premieres on NBC-TV
1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco, California. She will be paroled in 2007 after it is determined she is no longer a threat to President Ford who, conveniently for her, dies a year earlier)
1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway. What a friend we have in Saddam...
1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library after ham-fisted censors cut out all the good parts.
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. Al Qaeda trained seagulls are suspected.
2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy without being asked or telling
September 12 is the 256th day of the year. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year.
1609 Henry Hudson conveniently discovers the Hudson River, and, as luck would have it, the Hudson Bridge. Coincidence? I think not.
1776 20 year-old cutie patootie Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) on another unsuccessful spy mission
1940 4 teens, who claim they were following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings.
1959 "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV, but, we only want to see Little Joe nekkid!
1970 US psychology professor/LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs advocate Timothy Leary escapes from California jail, but he really doesn’t go anywhere
1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US $7 million (~$14.6M in 2008) by Los Macheteros
1990 US, England, France, U.S.S.R., East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to cohabitate in an incestuous relationship, against their better judgment
1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the west wing and killing himself. F-ing Republicans can’t stand having a Democrat in the White House. . .
2006 Pope Benedict XVI quotes a criticism of the Islamic faith leading to mass protests. The Pope offers to make up in the way of Roman Catholic priests.
1642 Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, gay French courtier/"favorite" of Louis XIII/French conspirator, has a hair-raising experience.
1869 Peter Mark Roget, English lexicographer, breathes his last, buys the farm, cashes in his chips, croaks, crosses the bar, crosses the Stygian shore, deceases, drops off, exits, expires, floats belly up, gives up the ghost, goes the way of all flesh, is no longer springtime fresh, is no more, keeps a date with St. Peter, kicks the bucket, knocks on heaven’s door, meets the Grim Reaper, packs it in, passes away, pays his debt to nature, perishes, pips out, relinquishes life, rests in peace, shuffles off this mortal coil, succumbs, turns up his toes. . .
1992 Anthony Perkins, bisexual US actor (Psycho), succumbs to AIDS at 60
1993 Raymond Burr, gay US actor (Perry Mason), loses his second case.
1995 Jeremy Brett [Peter Jeremy William Huggins], bisexual English actor (My Fair Lady), is no longer young and willing
