Today is Sunday, September 22, the 266th day of 2024. There are 100 days left within the yr. Fall begins at 8:43 a.m. EDT.
Today in history:
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that every one enslaved people within the Confederate states could be freed starting January 1, 1863, unless the states ended the fighting and rejoined the Union.
Also on this date:
In 1776, throughout the Revolutionary War, 21-year-old Captain Nathan Hale was hanged by the British in New York as a spy.
In 1975, Sara Jane Moore fired two shots in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed Ford by just inches.
In 1980, the Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq escalated right into a full-scale war that may last almost eight years.
In 1985, rock and country musicians participated in “Farm Aid,” a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to profit the nation’s farmers.
In 1993, 47 people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train fell off a bridge and into Big Bayou Canot near Mobile, Alabama.
In 2014, the United States and five Arab states launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, firing waves of aircraft and Tomahawk cruise missiles at a spread of targets.
In 2017, because the extent of the damage from Hurricane Maria became clearer, Puerto Rican authorities said they may not reach greater than half of the communities within the U.S. territory, where power to the island's 3.4 million residents was completely cut off.
Today's birthdays:
- The singer, choreographer and actor Toni Basil is 81.
- Music king Sunny Adé (ah-DAY') is 78.
- Harold Carmichael, member of the Football Hall of Fame, is 75.
- Rock singer David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) is 73.
- Actress Shari Belafonte is 70.
- Singer Debby Boone is 68.
- Country singer June Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 68.
- Singer Nick Cave is 67.
- Singer Andrea Bocelli (an-DRAY'-ah boh-CHEL'-ee) is 66.
- The singer and musician Joan Jett is 66.
- Actor Scott Baio is 64.
- Actress Bonnie Hunt is 63.
- Actress Mireille Enos is 49.
- Football player Thiago Silva is 40.
- Actress Tatiana Maslany is 39.
- Actor Tom Felton is 37.
- Actor Teyonah Parris is 37.
- Olympic skateboarding gold medalist Coco Yoshizawa is 15.
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