SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Today is Saturday, September 22, the 264th day of 2007. There are 101 days left in the year.

530 _ Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic pope

1692 _ Last person hanged for witchcraft in U.S.

1792 _ The Origin of the French Republican era

1817 _ John Quincy Adams becomes U.S. secretary of state

1863 _ President Abraham Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech

1949 _ The USSR detonates its first atomic bomb

1955 _ Commercial TV begins in England

1960 _ Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France

1964 _ ``Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, runs 3,242 performances

1970 _ President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses

1973 _ Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's first Jewish secretary of state

1980 _ Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins

1988 _ South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67-minute sit-in

1990 _ Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian and Yemeni envoys