September 22 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for September 22 First Day of Fall
In the headlines today:

2001	Violin virtuoso Isaac Stern dies in New York at age 81.
1999	Actor George C. Scott dies at his California home at age 71.
1995	Time Warner buys Turner Broadcasting System for $7.5 billion.
1989	Composer Irving Berlin dies in New York at age 101.
1975	US president Gerald Ford escapes an assassination attempt by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco, California. (photo credit: NARA)
1973	Former German resident Henry Kissinger becomes the US Secretary of State.
1964	Robert Vaughan and David McCallum star in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which debuts on NBC-TV.
1964	The musical Fiddler on the Roof, starring Zero Mostel, opens on Broadway for the first of what would become 3,242 performances.
1955	Commercial television comes to Britain.
1949	Russia explodes its first nuclear bomb.
1862	The Emancipation Proclamation, giving US slaves their freedom, is issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
1792	France proclaims itself a republic.
1789	The Office of US Postmaster-General is established by Congress.
1776	Accused spy Nathan Hale is hanged by the British during the American Revolution>.