MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Today is Monday, September 22, the 265th day of 2015. There are 100 days left in the year.

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

1792 ― Origin of French Republican Era

1863 ― President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech

1903 ― Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice-cream cone

1911 ― Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th and final game

1949 ― USSR detonates its first atomic bomb

1955 ― Commercial TV begins in England

1955 ― Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9

1964 ― “Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway, runs 3,242 performances

1973 ― Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America’s first Jewish secretary of state

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