On This Day:
Monday September 22, 2014 This is the 265th day of the year, with 100 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Yiddish Yiddish draws 12-20% of its lexicon from Hebrew and Aramaic.
Holidays Laos: Ho Khao Slak.
Puerto Rico: Grito de Lares Day.
Events 1656 - First all-woman jury was empaneled in the American colonies, at Patuxent, Maryland.
1789 - U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation calling for all slaves within the rebel states to be freed on January 1, 1863.
1914 - German submarine, the U-9, sank three British cruisers, the Aboukir, the Hogue, and the Cressy, in just over one hour.
1921 - The Band-Aid was invented.
1945 - President Harry Truman accepted the U.S. Secretary of War's recommendation to call the war, World War II.
1947 - First automatic-pilot flight over the Atlantic Ocean was made.
1949 - Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1950 - Omar N. Bradley was promoted to the rank of five-star general, in the U.S. Army.
1958 - Sherman Adams, assistant to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, resigned amid charges of improperly using his influence to help a businessman.
1959 - First telephone cable linking Europe and the United States was opened.
1961 - The Peace Corps was established by President John F. Kennedy when he signed the Congressional act.
1964 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway.
1969 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs.
1970 - President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, the second assassination attempt on him in less than three weeks.
1976 - "Charlie's Angels" premiered on TV.
1980 - Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
1981 - The world's fastest train, the France TGV, took its inaugural run from Paris to Lyons.
1994 - "Friends" premiered on television.
Births 1515 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII.
1791 - Michael Faraday, British chemist/physicist and inventor of the dynamo, transformer, and electric motor.
1902 - John Houseman (Haussmann), American actor.
1929 - Tommy Lasorda, American professional baseball manager, coach, pitcher.
1987 - Tom Felton, actor, ("Harry Potter" movies) in Kensington, London, England.
Deaths 1776 - Captain Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary patriot, hanged by the British for spying.
1828 - Shaka, African ruler and founder of the Zulu Kingdom, murdered by his half-brother Dingane.
1989 - American songwriter and composer Irving Berlin.
2001 - Russian-born American violinist Isaac Stern.
2005 - Corky McMillin (born Macey L. McMillin Jr.) was a well-known off-road desert racer and land developer.
2007 - Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel), renowned French mime.
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