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Events

• 1711 (315 years ago) The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.
• 1726 (300 years ago) Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
• 1891 (135 years ago) The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
• 1896 (130 years ago) Queen 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).
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
• 1953 (73 years ago) The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
• 1957 (69 years ago) In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
• 1960 (66 years ago) The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

Births

• 1515 (511 years ago) Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (died 1557)
• 1741 (285 years ago) Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (died 1811)
• 1791 (235 years ago) Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (died 1867)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal, head of the German armed forces (OKW), and convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1946)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Ségolène Royal, French politician
• 1958 (68 years ago) Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1959 (67 years ago) Saul Perlmutter, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1984 (42 years ago) Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer

Deaths

• 530 (1496 years ago) Pope Felix IV,
• 1520 (506 years ago) Selim I, Ottoman sultan (born 1465)
• 1539 (487 years ago) Guru Nanak, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism (born 1469)
• 1774 (252 years ago) Pope Clement XIV,
• 1872 (154 years ago) Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer and linguist (born 1801)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (born 1888)
• 1999 (27 years ago) George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (born 1927)

All 409 events, births and deaths of September 22