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On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

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On Sept. 22, 1902, John Houseman, the director, producer and actor of American stage, film and radio, was born. Following his death on Oct. 31, 1988, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1761	Britain’s King George III and his wife, Charlotte, were crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1776	Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.
1792	The first French Republic was proclaimed.
1862	President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states free as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1927	Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the “long count” fight in Chicago.
1949	The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1964	The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
1969	Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit his 600th career home run during a game in San Diego.
1975	Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.
1989	Songwriter Irving Berlin died at age 101.
1995	Time Warner struck a $7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
2004	“Lost” premiered on ABC.
2005	John Roberts’ nomination as chief justice cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 13-5 vote.
2008	The U.S. Mint unveiled the first changes to the penny in 50 years, with Abraham Lincoln’s portrait still on the front, but new designs replacing the Lincoln Memorial on the back.

Current Birthdays

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Opera singer Andrea Bocelli turns 54 years old today.

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NBA commissioner David Stern turns 70 years old today.

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1927	Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Fame baseball manager, turns 85
1934	Lute Olson, Hall of Fame basketball coach, turns 78
1951	David Coverdale, Rock singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake), turns 61
1954	Shari Belafonte, Actress, turns 58
1956	Debby Boone, Singer, turns 56
1957	Nick Cave, Singer, turns 55
1958	Joan Jett, Rock singer, musician, turns 54
1960	Scott Baio, Actor (“Happy Days,” “Joanie Loves Chachi”), turns 52
1961	Catherine Oxenberg, Actress (“Dynasty”), turns 51
1975	Mireille Enos, Actress (“The Killing,” “Big Love”), turns 37
1976	Ronaldo, Soccer player, turns 36
1987	Tom Felton, Actor (“Harry Potter” movies), turns 25

Historic Birthdays

John Houseman 9/22/1902 – 10/31/1988 American stage, film and radio actor.Go to obituary »

75	Michael Faraday 9/22/1791 – 8/25/1867 English physicist and chemist
78	Caroline Astor 9/22/1830 – 10/30/1908 American aristocratic leader of New York high society
91	Victor Shelford 9/22/1877 – 12/27/1968 American zoologist and animal ecologist
77	Dame Christabel Pankhurst 9/22/1880 – 2/13/1958 English women’s suffragist
71	Erich von Stroheim 9/22/1885 – 5/12/1957 Austrian film director, writer and actor
87	Babette Deutsch 9/22/1895 – 11/13/1982 American poet, critic, translator and novelist
71	Paul Muni 9/22/1895 – 8/25/1967 Austrian-born American stage and film actor
66	William Spratling 9/22/1900 – 8/8/1967 American silver designer and architect
95	Charles Huggins 9/22/1901 – 1/12/1997 Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and urologist (1966)
58	Eugen Sanger 9/22/1905 – 2/10/1964 German rocket propulsion engineer

Updated September 20, 2012, 2:28 pm

On Sept. 21, 1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.

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On Sept. 21, 1867, Henry Stimson, United States Secretary of War during World War II, was born. Following his death on Oct. 20, 1950, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1897	The New York Sun ran an editorial answering a question from an 8-year-old girl that included the line, “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.”
1931	Britain went off the gold standard.
1937	“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
1938	A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.
1948	Milton Berle debuted as permanent host of “The Texaco Star Theater” on NBC.
1957	“Perry Mason,” starring Raymond Burr, premiered on CBS.
1964	Malta gained independence from Britain.
1970	“NFL Monday Night Football” debuted on ABC.
1982	National Football League players began a 57-day strike.
1983	Interior Secretary James G. Watt described a special advisory panel as consisting of “a black … a woman, two Jews and a cripple.” Watt later apologized and resigned.
1996	The board of Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1998	President Bill Clinton’s videotaped grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky scandal was publicly broadcast, showing him answering one question from prosecutors by saying, “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
1998	Olympic gold medal track star Florence Griffith Joyner, 38, died in her sleep after suffering an epilectic seizure.
2001	Congress approved $15 billion to help an airline industry reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2004	The album “American Idiot” by Green Day was released.
2008	“Mad Men” became the first basic-cable show to win a top series Emmy award.

Current Birthdays

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Country singer Faith Hill turns 45 years old today.

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Actress Autumn Reeser turns 32 years old today.

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1931	Larry Hagman, Actor (“I Dream of Jeannie,” “Dallas”), turns 81
1941	Fannie Flagg, Author, comedian, turns 71
1934	Leonard Cohen, Poet, songwriter, turns 78
1941	James Woolsey, Former CIA director, turns 71
1943	Jerry Bruckheimer, Producer (“CSI”), turns 69
1944	Steve Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, turns 68
1947	Stephen King, Author, turns 65
1950	Bill Murray, Actor, turns 62
1957	Ethan Coen, Writer, producer, turns 55
1961	Nancy Travis, Actress, turns 51
1962	Rob Morrow, Actor (“Numb3rs,” “Northern Exposure”), turns 50
1965	Cheryl Hines, Actress (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), turns 47
1966	Mike Richter, Hockey player, turns 46
1968	Ricki Lake, Actress, talk show host, turns 44
1971	Luke Wilson, Actor, turns 41
1981	Nicole Richie, TV personality (“The Simple Life”), turns 31
1983	Maggie Grace, Actress (“Lost”), turns 29

 

Historic Birthdays

Henry Stimson 9/21/1867 – 10/20/1950 American statesman; served under five presidents. Go to obituary »

80	John Loudon McAdam 9/21/1756 – 11/26/1836 Scottish inventor of macadamized road construction
69	Charles Nicolle 9/21/1866 – 2/28/1936 French Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (1928)
79	H. G. Wells 9/21/1866 – 8/13/1946 English novelist, historian and science fiction writer
59	Gustav Holst 9/21/1874 – 5/25/1934 English composer and teacher
67	Sir Allen Lane 9/21/1902 – 7/7/1970 English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing
63	Westbrook Van Voorhis 9/21/1904 – 7/14/1968 American radio announcer
85	Hans Hartung 9/21/1904 – 12/7/1989 German-born French painter