✱ Things that happened on September 22nd ✱

• 1499 ▸ Switzerland becomes an independent state
• 1515 ▸ Anne of Cleves's birthday, Queen of England and 4th wife of Henry VIII, born in Dusseldorf, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1557)
• 1554 ▸ Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer and conquistador who led 1st European expedition to discover the Grand Canyon, dies of disease at about 44
• 1692 ▸ Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem witch trials
• 1862 ▸ US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1
• 1870 ▸ Charlotte Cooper's birthday, English tennis champion and the 1st female Olympic champion in 1900, born in Ealing, England (d. 1966)
• 1908 ▸ Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
• 1911 ▸ Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511
• 1914 ▸ 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
• 1915 ▸ Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
• 1915 ▸ Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
• 1937 ▸ Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
• 1940 ▸ Anna Karina, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Alphaville)
• 1955 ▸ -28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean
• 1956 ▸ Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
• 1958 ▸ Joan Jett
  
  , American singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll), born in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
• 1961 ▸ Bonnie Hunt's birthday, Chicago, IL
• 1966 ▸ Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
• 1975 ▸ Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco
• 1976 ▸ "Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith debuts
• 1980 ▸ John Lennon and Yoko Ono sign a recording contract with Geffen Records
• 1982 ▸ Billie Piper's birthday, Swindon, England
• 1984 ▸ Thiago Silva's birthday, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 1985 ▸ 37th Emmy Awards: Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show & Tyne Daly win
• 1985 ▸ Tatiana Maslany's birthday, Regina, Canada
• 1987 ▸ Tom Feltom's birthday, Epsom, England
• 1989 ▸ "Baywatch" starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson debuts on NBC
• 1994 ▸ First episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S ♡♡♡♡♡
• 2002 ▸ 54th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Friends, Michael Chiklis & Allison Janney win
• 2004 ▸ "Lost" created by J.J. Abrams and starring Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly debuts on ABC in the US
• 2013 ▸ 65th Prime time Emmy Awards: "Breaking Bad" and "Modern Family" win
• 2013 ▸ 78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
• 2015 ▸ First episode of Scream Queens