September 22nd, 1944

Born on September 22nd, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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What happened on September 22nd?

September 22nd, 2014

The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.

September 22nd, 2013

Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.

September 22nd, 2003

Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.

September 22nd, 1994

The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.

September 22nd, 1993

A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.

September 22nd, 1979

An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

September 22nd, 1975

Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.

September 22nd, 1957

François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.

September 22nd, 1948

Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

September 22nd, 1939

A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.

September 22nd, 1934

One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.

September 22nd, 1922

After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished (aftermath pictured), having caused at least ten thousand deaths.

September 22nd, 1914

World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia and sank a French gunboat.

September 22nd, 1869

Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.

September 22nd, 1789

The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 22nd

Born on September 22nd, 1944

81

Frazer Hines

English actor and cancer survivor

*September 22nd, 1944, Horsforth

Same year
Born in 1944

81

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

82

Joachim Schimpke

German badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

81

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

81

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

81

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

82

John Rhys-Davies

Welsh actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

82

Gernot Erler

German politician

*May 3rd, 1944, Meissen

82

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer, actress, and composer (1944–2024)

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris †June 11th, 2024, American Hospital of Paris

81

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

82

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

82

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

82

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

81

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

72

László Csendes

Hungarian actor (1944-2017)

*September 21st, 1944, Rimavská Sobota †March 24th, 2017

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer (1944–2017)

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

82

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of the Republic of Ghana

*March 29th, 1944, Accra

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on September 22nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast days, Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere) which are celebrated on September 22nd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on September 22nd, 1944
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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