^B{^#!16!22 September^N! Feast day of St Felix II, pope, St Landus or L⌠, St Bodo, St Emmeramus, St Maurice of Agaunum, St Thomas of Villanova, The Theban Legion, St Phocas the Gardener, and St Salaberga.
^B{1735^B} Sir Robert Walpole became the first prime minister to occupy 10 Downing Street. ^B{1792^B} France was declared a Republic. ^B{1862^B} US President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ordering the freeing of slaves. ^B{1869^B} Wagner's opera ^I{Das Rheingold^I} was first performed in Munich. ^B{1914^B} Three British cruisers, ^I{Aboukir^I}, ^I{Hogue^I}, and ^I{Cressy^I}, were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats. ^B{1955^B} Argentinian leader Juan Per≤n was deposed in a military coup. ^B{1955^B} Independent TV began operating; Britain's first commercial and first woman newsreader were transmitted. ^B{1972^B} Idi Amin gave the 8,000 Asians in Uganda 48 hours to leave the country. ^B{1980^B} The Solidarity movement in Poland was created, with Lech Walesa as its elected leader. ^B{1985^B} A severe earthquake hit Mexico, killing 2,000 people. ^B{1989^B} An IRA bomb attack on the Royal Marines School of Music killed ten and injured twelve of the bandsmen.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII, ^B{1515^B}; Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, ^B{1791^B}; Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist, ^B{1880^B}; Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and film director, ^B{1885^B}; John Houseman, US actor and producer, ^B{1902^B}; Fay Weldon, British author, ^B{1931^B}; Catherine Oxenberg, US film actress, ^B{1961^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Nathan Hale, American revolutionary patriot, hanged, ^B{1776^B}; Axel Springer, German publisher, ^B{1985^B}; Jaco Pastorius, US bass guitarist, ^B{1987^B}; Louis Kentner, English pianist, ^B{1987^B}; Irving Berlin, US composer, ^B{1989^B}.
