Today is Thursday, September 22, the 265th day of 2011. There are 100 days left in the year.
1692 ― Last person hanged for witchcraft in U.S.
1792 ― Origin of French Republican Era
1862 ― President Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states on Jan. 1
1911 ― Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th and final game
1949 ― USSR detonates its first atomic bomb
1955 ― Commercial TV begins in England
1961 ― Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes the first ``double" crossing swim of the English Channel in 43 hours & 10 minute.
1973 ― Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's first Jewish secretary of state
1975 ― Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in S.F., Calif.
1988 ― Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in