What are the important events that happened on September 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 22: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 22 is the 265^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 9, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,758,499,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontapentagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 148 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,658 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 22: This Day In History

It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

September 22 Historical Events

• 1586 –
  Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
• 1598 –
  English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
• 1761 –
  George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1869 –
  Richard Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
• 1885 –
  Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
• 1919 –
  The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
• 1927 –
  Jack Dempsey loses the “Long Count” boxing match to Gene Tunney.
• 1939 –
  Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
• 1941 –
  World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
• 2003 –
  David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

Who were born on September 22?

• 1741 –
  Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
• 1743 –
  Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
• 1829 –
  Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
• 1876 –
  André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
• 1891 –
  Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
• 1923 –
  Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
• 1925 –
  Virginia Capers, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1957 –
  Johnette Napolitano, American musician
• 1964 –
  Ken Vandermark, American jazz saxophone and clarinet player
• 1967 –
  Félix Savón, Cuban boxer

Who died on September 22?

• 1520 –
  Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
• 1554 –
  Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
• 1566 –
  Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
• 1607 –
  Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
• 1774 –
  Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
• 1961 –
  Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1992 –
  Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
• 1999 –
  George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2008 –
  Thomas Doerflein, German Zookeeper (b. 1963)
• 2010 –
  Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 1928)