Today In History - September 22

530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in the US
1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1789 The Office of Postmaster General of the US is established by Congress
1792 Origin of the French Republican Era
1817 John Quincy Adams becomes the Secretary of State
1862 President Lincoln says he will free the slaves in all states on January 1
1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
1868 Race riots in New Orleans
1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced in Munich
1893 The first auto built in the US runs in Springfield
1903 Italo Marchiony is granted a patent for the ice cream cone
1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia: 10 blacks and 2 whites are killed
1911 Cy Young, at age 44, wins his 511th and final game
1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 people at Dawson, New Mexico
1915 Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas holds its first class
1919 Steel strike begins in US
1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody, Wyoming
1944 Boulogne is reoccupied by Allies
1945 Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches
1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering her husband
1949 The USSR detonates its first atomic bomb
1950 Omar N. Bradley is promoted to the rank of 5-star general
1955 Commercial TV begins in England
1960 Mali gains independence from France
1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway
1964 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV
1970 President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1973 Henry Kissinger is sworn in as America's first Jewish Secretary of State
1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco
1975 The World Football League ends
1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute and war begins
1980 John and Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffen Records
1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ
1985 Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
1989 Irving Berlin dies at 101
1990 Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian and Yemeni envoys
1991 California University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public

Today In History - September 22

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