September 22

Birthdays:

1959 ~ Saul Perlemutter, American astrophysicist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1958 ~ Joan Jett, American singer.

1932 ~ Ingemar Johansson (d. Jan. 30, 2009), Swedish world heavyweight champion who beat Floyd Patterson.  He died at age 76.

1927 ~ Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager.

1924 ~ J. William Middendorf (né John William Middendorf, II), 14^th United States Secretary of the Navy.  He served in that Office from April 1974 until January 1977.

1904 ~ Ellen Church (d. Aug. 22, 1965), American nurse and first female flight attendant.  She died a month before her 61^st birthday from injuries sustained from a horse riding accident.

1902 ~ John Houseman (né Jacques Haussmann, d. Oct. 31, 1988), Rumanian-born actor.  He died of spinal cancer at age 86.

1901 ~ Charles B. Huggins (d. Jan. 12, 1997), Canadian-born physician and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of some cancers.  His specialty was prostate cancer.  He died at age 95.

1896 ~ Uri Zvi Grinberg (d. May 8, 1981), Israeli poet and journalist.  He died at age 84.

1880 ~ Dame Christabel Pankhurst (d. Feb. 13, 1958), British leader of the women’s suffrage movement.  She died at age 77.

1876 ~ André Tardieu (d. Sept. 15, 1945), Prime Minister of France.  He served 3 terms as Prime Minister.  He died a week before his 69^th birthday.

1791 ~ Michael Faraday (d. Aug. 25, 1867), British chemist and physicist who discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction.  He died a month before his 76^th birthday.

1765 ~ Paolo Ruffini (d. May 10, 1822), Italian mathematician.  He died at age 56.

1547 ~ Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (d. Nov. 29, 1590), German mathematician.  He died at age 43.

1552 ~ Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (d. Sept. 12, 1612).  He was Tsar from May 1606 until July 1610.  He died 60 days before his 60^th birthday.

1515 ~ Anne of Cleves (d. July 16, 1557), English noblewoman and fourth wife of King Henry VIII.  The marriage was never consummated and was annulled after a few months, thus Anne did not lose her head.  She died at age 41.

Events that Changed the World:

2017 ~ Second Day of Rosh Hashanah.

2015 ~ Yom Kippur began at sunset.

1993 ~ A barge struck a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama.  Forty-seven passengers were killed in the ensuing accident.

1991 ~ The Dead Seas Scrolls were made available for the first time to the public.

1980 ~ Iraq invaded Iran.  The War lasted nearly 8 years.

1975 ~ Sara Jane Moore (b. 1930) tried to assassinated President Gerald Ford (1913 ~ 2006).  She was later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

1957 ~ François Duvalier (1907 ~ 1971), known as Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti.

1941 ~ German SS troops murdered 6,000 Jews who had survived a massacre a few days earlier in Vinnytsya, Ukraine.  The murders occurred on Rosh HaShanah.

1888 ~ The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published.

1869 ~ Das Rheingold, the opera by Richard Wagner (1813 ~ 1883), premiered in Munich.

1789 ~ The Office of United States Postmaster General was established.

1761 ~ George II (1738 ~ 1830) and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 ~ 1818) were crown King and Queen of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1598 ~ English playwright Ben Jonson (1572 ~ 1637), killed an actor in a duel and was indicted for manslaughter.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Yogi Berra (né Lawrence Peter Berra, b. May 12, 1925), American baseball player and manager.  He was the baseball great who became a fount of wisdom.  He was 90 years old.

2013 ~ David H. Hubel (b. Feb. 27, 1926), Canadian neurophysiologist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.  He died at age 87.

2012 ~ Irving Adler (b. Apr. 27, 1913), American mathematician.  He died in Bennington, Vermont at age 99.

2010 ~ Eddie Fisher (né Edwin Jack Fisher, b. Aug. 10, 1928), American singer and one of the many husbands of Elizabeth Taylor.  He left his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, for Taylor.  He was the father of actress Carrie Fisher.  He died at age 82.

2007 ~ Marcel Marceau (né Marcel Mengel, b. Mar. 22, 1923), French mime artist.  He was 84 years old.

2003 ~ Gordon Jump (né Alexander Gordon Jump, b. Apr. 1, 1932), American actor.  He is best known for his role as Arthur Carlson in WKRP in Cincinnati and as the Maytag Repairman in the advertisements.  He was 71 years old.

2002 ~ Jan de Hartog (b. Apr. 22, 1914), Dutch author.  He died at age 88.

2001 ~ Isaac Stern (b. July 21, 1920), Ukrainian-born violinist.  He died at age 81.

2000 ~ Yehuda Amichai (b. May 3, 1924), German-born Israeli poet.  He died at age 76.

1999 ~ George C. Scott (b. Oct. 18, 1927), American actor.  He died less than a month before his 72^nd birthday.

1989 ~ Irving Berlin (né Israel Isidore Baline, b. May 11, 1888), Russian-born American songwriter and composer.  He died at age 101.

1987 ~ Dan Rowan (né Daniel Hale David, b. July 22, 1922), American actor, best known for being the straight man to Dick Martin on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.  He died of lymphoma at age 65.

1987 ~ Beatrice Aitchison (b. July 18, 1908), American mathematician.  She died at age 89.

1956 ~ Frederick Soddy (b. Sept. 2, 1877), French chemist and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in nuclear reactions.  He died 20 days after his 79^th birthday.

1952 ~ Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (b. Jan. 28, 1865), 1^st President of Finland.  He served in this office from July 1919 until March 1925.  He died at age 87.

1776 ~ Nathan Hale (b. June 6, 1755), American patriot during the American Revolutionary War.  He was a captain in the Continental Army.  He was hanged by the British as a spy.  Before he died, he stated: I only regret that I have but one life to give my country.  He was 21 years old.

1774 ~ Pope Clement XIV (né Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, b. Oct. 31, 1705).  He was Pope from May 19, 1769 until his death on this date 5 years later.  He was 68 at the time of his death.

1703 ~ Vincenzo Viviani (b. Apr. 5, 1622), Italian mathematician.  He died at age 81.

1554 ~ Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (b. 1494), Spanish conquistador.  He led a large exploration from Mexico into what is now Kansas.  The exact date of his birth is unknown.

904 ~ Zhao Zong (b. Mar. 31, 867), Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty.  He is believed to have been 37 at the time of his death.

530 ~ Pope Felix IV.  He was Pope from July 526 until his death 4 years later.  The date of his birth is not known.