TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 22
1656 The General Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impanels the first all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith Catchpole, who is accused of murdering her child. The jury acquits her after hearing her defense of never having been pregnant.
1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem Witch Trials
1711 The Tuscarora Indian War begins with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children.
1776 Nathan Hale executed as a spy by the British
1789 Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, proposing to free all slaves of rebel states as of Jan. 1, 1863.
1906 Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia leave 21 people dead.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson abandons his national tour to support the League of Nations when he suffers a case of nervous exhaustion.
1927 In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous “long-count” fight.
1929 Communist and Nazi factions clash in Berlin.
1955 Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps.
1970 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1970 President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress.
1975 Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, the second attempt on his life in less than three weeks
1980 The Iran-Iraq War begins as Iraq invades Iran; lasting until August 1988
1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
1988 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
1998 The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russia’s nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.
2004 CBS owned stations are fined $550,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl half time show.
2006 President Pervez Musharraf has revealed that the former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage informed Pakistan’s intelligence director that if Pakistan did not cooperate with the US on it’s fight against al-Qaeda, the US would bomb Pakistan “back to the stone age.” The US has denied all claims.
2012 The Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria has admitted that over six-hundred children suffered from sexual abuse by priests since the 1930s.
2013 At least seventy-five people were killed in a twin-suicide bomb attack on the All Saints Christian church in the Peshawar, Pakistan.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
