Top Historical Events That Happened on September 22

1921  Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations   

1922  Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)   

1923  Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer.   

1923  Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse   

1924  Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician.   

1925  Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers   

1925  Virginia Capers, Sumter SC, actress (White Mama, Original Intent).   

1926  Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish princess Astrid get engaged   

1926  William O Smith, composer   

1927  Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney).   

1927  Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, (Rep-D-Texas, 1965- )   

1927  Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44.   

1928  Eugene Roche, Boston MA, actor (Foul Play, Slaughterhouse Five).   

1931  Fay Weldon, British author is born   

1932  Hungarian govt of Károlyi falls.   

1934  An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.   

1935  Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115.   

1935  Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86.   

1937  Forest fire results in the deaths of 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming   

1941  British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro.   

1942  Meulenberg robs of church bells   

1943  U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.   

1943  British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz.   

1944  Boulogne reoccupied by Allies   

1944  "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek   

1945  Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches.   

1946  Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband.   

1947  Dodgers clinch NL pennant   

1949  USSR detonates its inaugural atomic bomb.   

1949  USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb.   

1949  Sam Wood, US communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66.   

1950  Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general   

1950  Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)   

1952  Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62   

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1290  Bilbo baggins: (in shire reconning)   

1515  Anna van kleef: Queen of england/4th wife of henry viii   

1547  Philipp nikodemus frischlin: German philologist and poet   

1601  Anna van oostenrijk: Queen of france/daughter of philip iii   

1606  Li zicheng: Chinese rebel   

1680  Barthold heinrich brockes: German poet   

1694  Lord chesterfield: Letter writer; introduced gregorian calendar (1752)   

1715  Jean-Étienne guettard: French physician and scientist   

1072  Death of Ouyang xiu: Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)   

1197  Death of Petrus cantor: French theologist (verbum abbreviatum),   

1253  Death of Dogen kigen: 1st zen patriarch of japanese soto line,   

1286  Death of Mugaku sogen: Zen rinzai line founder of engakuji temple,   

1345  Henry plantagenet: 3rd earl of leicester (b. 1281)   

1392  Aleid van poelgeest: Lover of earl albrecht of bavaria, murdered at 22   

1399  Death of Thomas de mowbray: 1st duke of norfolk, english politician (b. 1366)   

1408  Death of Johannes vii palaeologus: Byzantine emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8),