September 22
is the 265th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (266th in
leap years). There are 100 days remaining. It is known to be the last day of the summer season in the
Northern Hemisphere, and the last day of the winter season in the
Southern Hemisphere.
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66 - Emperor
Nero creates the
legion I Italica.
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1236 - The
Lithuanians and
Semigallians beat the
Livonian Brothers of the Sword in
Battle of Šiauliai.
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1586 - The
battle of Zutphen occurs.
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1598 -
Ben Jonson is indicted for
manslaughter.
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1692 - Last people hanged for
witchcraft in the
United States.
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1776 -
Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during
American Revolution.
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1784 -
Russia establishes a colony at
Kodiak, Alaska.
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1789 - The position of
United States Postmaster General established.
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1792 -
primidi Vendémiaire of year I of the
French Republican Calendar*
1862 -
Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the
Emancipation Proclamation is released.
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1866 - Decisive
battle of Curupaity in the
War of the Triple Alliance.
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1869 -
Richard Wagner's
opera Das Rheingold debuts in
Munich.
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1885 -
Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to
Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
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1893 - The first
American-built
automobile, built by the
Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
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1896 -
Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather
King George III as the longest reigning
monarch in British history.
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1908 - The
independence of
Bulgaria is recognised.
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1927 -
Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count"
boxing match to
Gene Tunney.
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1934 - An explosion took place at
Gresford Colliery in
Wales which led to the death of 266 miners and rescuers.
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1937 -
Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the
Battle of El Mazuco.
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1944 -
World War II,
Red Army entered
Tallinn.
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1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college
football game between
Duke and the
University of Pittsburgh, is televised on
NBC.
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1955 - In
Britain, the television channel
ITV goes
live for the first time.
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1960 -
Mali gains independence from
France.
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1965 - The war between
India and
Pakistan over
Kashmir ends after the
UN calls for a
cease-fire.
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1970 -
Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of
Malaysia.
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1975 -
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate
U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by
Oliver Sipple.
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1979 - The
South Atlantic Flash is observed near
Bouvet Island, thought to be a
nuclear weapons test.
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1980 -
Iraq invades Iran.
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1985 - The
Plaza Accord was signed in
New York City.
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1991 - The
Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the
Huntington Library.
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1993 - A
Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in
Sukhumi,
Georgia.
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1997 -
Bentalha massacre in
Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
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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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2004 -
Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, also known as "
Flight 815", a
fictional airline flight from the television series
Lost, crashed.
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1515 -
Anne of Cleves, queen consort of
Henry VIII of England (d.
1557)
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1547 -
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d.
1590)
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1593 -
Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d.
1650)
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1601 -
Anne of Austria, wife of
Louis XIII of France (d.
1666)
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1606 -
Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d.
1645)
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1680 -
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d.
1747)
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1694 -
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (d.
1773)
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1715 -
Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d.
1786)
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1717 -
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d.
1783)
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1722 -
John Home, Scottish writer (d.
1808)
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1741 -
Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d.
1811)
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1743 -
Quintin Craufurd, British author
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1788 -
Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d.
1841)
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1791 -
Michael Faraday, English scientist (d.
1867)
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1819 -
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d.
1897)
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1829 -
Tu Duc,
Emperor of Vietnam*
1876 -
André Tardieu,
Prime Minister of France (d.
1945)
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1878 -
Yoshida Shigeru,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1967)
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1880 - Dame
Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d.
1958)
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1882 -
Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d.
1946)
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1885 -
Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor(d.
1957)
* 1885 -
Ben Chifley,
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1951)
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1895 -
Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d.
1967)
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1898 -
Katherine Alexander, American actress (d.
1981)
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1900 -
William Spratling, American silversmith (d.
1967)
* 1900 -
Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d.
1985)
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1901 -
Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist,
Nobel laureate (d.
1997)
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1902 -
John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d.
1988)
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1904 -
Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d.
1971)
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1905 -
Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d.
1964)
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1912 -
Martha Scott, American actress (d.
2003)
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1915 -
Arthur Lowe, British actor (d.
1982)
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1918 -
Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d.
1988)
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1920 -
William H. Riker, American political scientist (d.
1993)
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1922 -
Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist,
Nobel laureate *
1923 -
Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
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1924 -
Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d.
1988)
* 1924 -
Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
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1927 -
Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
* 1927 -
Gordon Astall, English footballer
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1928 -
James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
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1931 -
Fay Weldon, British feminist
* 1931 -
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d.
2003)
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1932 -
Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer
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1932 -
Dr. Md. Fazle Rabbee, Bangladeshi cardiologist
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1934 -
Lute Olson, American basketball coach
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1936 -
Maurice Evans, English football player and manager (d.
2000)
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1938 -
Gene Mingo, American football player
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1942 -
David Stern, American basketball commissioner
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1943 -
Toni Basil, American singer
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1946 -
King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
* 1946 -
Larry Dierker, baseball player
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1947 -
Robert Morace, American writer
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1948 -
Denis Burke, Australian politician
* 1948 -
Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
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1949 -
Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d.
1999)
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1950 -
Kirka, Finnish singer
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1951 -
David Coverdale, English singer
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1952 -
Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
* 1952 -
Paul Le Mat, American actor
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1954 -
Shari Belafonte, American singer
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1956 -
Debby Boone, American singer
* 1956 -
Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (
Rats & Star)
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1957 -
Nick Cave, Australian musician
* 1957 -
Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
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1958 -
Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
* 1958 -
Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
* 1958 -
Joan Jett, American musician
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1959 -
Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
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1961 -
Scott Baio, American actor
* 1961 -
Bonnie Hunt, American actress
* 1961 -
Vince Coleman, American baseball player
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1962 -
Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
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1965 -
Andy Cairns, Irish musician
* 1965 -
Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
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1966 -
Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
* 1966 -
Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
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1967 -
Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
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1968 -
Mike Richter, American hockey player
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1969 -
Chris Powell, English footballer
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1969 -
Matt Sharp, American Musician (
Weezer), (
The Rentals)
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1970 -
Mike Matheny, Baseball player
* 1970 -
Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
* 1970 -
Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
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1971 -
Chesney Hawkes, British singer
* 1971 -
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway*
1974 -
Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
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1975 -
Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
* 1975 -
Mystikal, American rapper
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1976 -
Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
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1978 -
Ed Joyce, Irish/English cricketer
* 1978 -
Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
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1980 -
Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian supermodel
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1981 -
Adam Lazzara, American musician (
Taking Back Sunday)
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1982 -
Billie Piper, English singer and actress
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1987 -
Tom Felton, English actor
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1988 -
Bethany Dillon, American musician
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1253 -
Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b.
1200)
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1345 -
Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b.
1281)
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1399 -
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b.
1366)
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1520 -
Selim I,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1465)
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1554 -
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
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1566 -
Johannes Agricola, German protestant reformer (b.
1494)
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1607 -
Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b.
1535)
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1658 -
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b.
1607)
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1662 -
John Biddle, English theologian (b.
1615)
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1703 -
Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b.
1622)
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1774 -
Pope Clement XIV (b.
1705)
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1777 -
John Bartram, American botanist (b.
1699)
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1828 -
Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader
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1852 -
William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b.
1783)
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1872 -
Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b.
1801)
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1873 -
Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1801)
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1881 -
Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b.
1831)
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1956 -
Frederick Soddy, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1877)
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1957 -
Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b.
1885)
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1961 -
Marion Davies, American actress (b.
1897)
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1987 -
Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b.
1922)
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1989 -
Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b.
1888)
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1992 -
Aurelio López, baseball player (b.
1948)
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1993 -
Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b.
1903)
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1996 -
Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b.
1914)
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1999 -
George C. Scott, American actor (b.
1927)
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2001 -
Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b.
1920)
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2002 -
Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b.
1914)
* 2002 -
Mike Webster, American football player (b.
1952)
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2003 -
Gordon Jump, American television actor (b.
1932)
* 2003 -
Hugo Young, British journalist (b.
1938)
*
2004 -
The Big Boss Man, professional wrestler (b.
1962)
*In
ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the
Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
*In ancient
Latvia, the first day of
Mikeli, the Catching of Jumis.
*
RC Saints - It has been or still is the
feast day of the following
saints:
**Saints Saint Digna & Saint Emerita
**
Saint Emmeramus**Saint Florentius
**Saint Jonas
**Saint Lauto
**
Saint Lioba**Saint Lolanus
**
Saint Maurice**
Saint Phocas**Saint Salaberga
**Saint Sanctinus
**
Saint Thomas of VillanuevaAlso see
September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
French Republican Calendar -
Raisin (Grape) Day, first day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
Bulgaria -
Independence Day 1908*
Mali -
Independence Day (from France,
1960)
*In
Europe and in cities throughout the world,
Car Free Day.
*
Autumnal equinox in the
Northern hemisphere,
Vernal equinox in the
Southern hemisphere 1996,
2000,
2004,
2005,
2008,
2009,
2012 (by
UT).
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