September 22 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 22

• 1791Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist
• 1958Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953Ségolène Royal, French politician
• 1959Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1984Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1741Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist
• 1987Tom Felton, English actor
• 1939Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer
• 1957Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, author, and actor
• 1958Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

What happened on September 22

• 1726Bach led the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
• 1869Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in Munich.
• 1885Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
• 1891The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
• 1896Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).
• 1910The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• 1953The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
• 1960The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
• 1994The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
• 2003Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
• 2014The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
• 2024Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.

Also observed on September 22

• American Business Women's Day (United States)
• Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.