September 22
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| + | "[[George Soros]] became instantly famous on [[September 22]], [[1992]], when, believing the [[Pound sterling]] was overvalued, he speculated heavily against it. The [[Bank of England]] was forced to withdraw the currency out of the [[European Exchange Rate Mechanism]], and Soros earned an estimated US$1 billion in the process. | ||
| + | He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England."" --Sholem Stein | ||
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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| *[[1869]] - [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' debuts in [[Munich]]. | *[[1869]] - [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' debuts in [[Munich]]. | ||
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| *[[1862]] - [[Maurice Barrès]], French writer and provocateur (d. [[1923]]) | *[[1862]] - [[Maurice Barrès]], French writer and provocateur (d. [[1923]]) | ||
| *[[1885]] - [[Erich von Stroheim]], Austrian-born actor (d. [[1957]]) | *[[1885]] - [[Erich von Stroheim]], Austrian-born actor (d. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Paul Muni]], Polish-born actor (d. [[1967]]) | + | *[[1895]] - [[Paul Muni]], Polish-born actor (d. 1967) |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Anna Karina]], Danish born actress | + | *[[1940]] - [[Anna Karina]], Danish born actress (d. 2019) |
| *[[1946]] - [[King Sunny Adé]], Nigerian singer | *[[1946]] - [[King Sunny Adé]], Nigerian singer | ||
| *[[1956]] - [[Doug Wimbish]], American bass player | *[[1956]] - [[Doug Wimbish]], American bass player | ||
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| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
| - | ==Deaths== | + | *[[1989]] – [[Irving Berlin]], Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1888) |
| - | *[[1072]] – [[Ouyang Xiu]], Chinese historian, poet, and politician (b. 1007) | + | *[[2007]] – [[Marcel Marceau]], French actor (b. 1923) |
| - | *[[1253]] – [[Dōgen]], Japanese educator (b. 1200) | + | |
| - | *[[1345]] – [[Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster]], English politician, [[Lord High Steward]] (b. 1281) | + | |
| - | *[[1399]] – [[Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk]], English politician (b. 1366) | + | |
| - | *[[1520]] – [[Selim I]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1465) | + | |
| - | *[[1539]] – [[Guru Nanak]], Pakistani religious leader, founded [[Sikhism]] (b. 1469) | + | |
| - | *[[1554]] – [[Francisco Vásquez de Coronado]], Spanish explorer (b. 1510) | + | |
| - | *[[1566]] – [[Johannes Agricola]], German religious reformer (b. 1494) | + | |
| - | *[[1607]] – [[Alessandro Allori]], Italian painter (b. 1535) | + | |
| - | *[[1658]] – [[Georg Philipp Harsdorffer]], German poet (b. 1607) | + | |
| - | *[[1662]] – [[John Biddle (Unitarian)|John Biddle]], English theologian (b. 1615) | + | |
| - | *[[1692]] – [[Martha Corey]], American woman accused of [[witchcraft]] (b. 1620) | + | |
| - | *[[1703]] – [[Vincenzo Viviani]], Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1622) | + | |
| - | *[[1774]] – [[Pope Clement XIV]] (b. 1705) | + | |
| - | *[[1776]] – [[Nathan Hale]], American soldier (b. 1755) | + | |
| - | *[[1777]] – [[John Bartram]], American botanist and explorer (b. 1699) | + | |
| - | *[[1828]] – [[Shaka]], Zulu leader (b. 1787) | + | |
| - | *[[1852]] – [[William Tierney Clark]], English engineer, designed the [[Hammersmith Bridge]] (b. 1783) | + | |
| - | *[[1872]] – [[Vladimir Dal]], Russian lexicographer (b. 1801) | + | |
| - | *[[1873]] – [[Friedrich Frey-Herosé]], Swiss politician (b. 1801) | + | |
| - | *[[1881]] – [[Solomon L. Spink]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1831) | + | |
| - | *[[1914]] – [[Alain-Fournier]], French author and soldier (b. 1886) | + | |
| - | *[[1919]] – [[Alajos Gáspár]], Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1848) | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] – [[Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg]], Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st [[President of Finland]] (b. 1865) | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] – [[Frederick Soddy]], English chemist and economist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1877) | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] – [[Soemu Toyoda]], Japanese admiral (b. 1885) | + | |
| - | *[[1961]] – [[Marion Davies]], American actress, singer, and producer (b. 1897) | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] – [[Adolfo López Mateos]], Mexican politician, 48th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1909) | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] – [[Paul van Zeeland]], Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. 1893) | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Harry Warren]], American composer and songwriter (b. 1893) | + | |
| - | *[[1987]] – [[Hákun Djurhuus]], Faroese educator and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands]] (b. 1908) | + | |
| - | * 1987 – [[Dan Rowan]], American actor and producer (b. 1922) | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] – [[Rais Amrohvi]], Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914) | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] – [[Ambrose Alli]], Nigerian politician (b. 1929) | + | |
| - | * 1989 – [[Irving Berlin]], Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1888) | + | |
| - | *[[1992]] – [[Aurelio López]], Mexican baseball player (b. 1948) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] – [[Maurice Abravanel]], Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903) | + | |
| - | *[[1994]] – [[Leonard Feather]], English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] – [[Bruno Junk]], Estonian race walker (b. 1929) | + | |
| - | *[[1996]] – [[Ludmilla Chiriaeff]], Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924) | + | |
| - | * 1996 – [[Dorothy Lamour]], American actress and singer (b. 1914) | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] – [[George C. Scott]], American actor, director, and producer (b. 1927) | + | |
| - | *[[2000]] – [[Saburō Sakai]], Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1916) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] – [[Isaac Stern]], Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] – [[Jan de Hartog]], Dutch-American author and playwright (b. 1914) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] – [[Gordon Jump]], American actor (b. 1932) | + | |
| - | * 2003 – [[Wolfgang Peters]], German footballer (b. 1929) | + | |
| - | * 2003 – [[Hugo Young]], English journalist (b. 1938) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] – [[Big Boss Man (wrestler)|Big Boss Man]], American wrestler (b. 1962) | + | |
| - | * 2004 – [[Pete Schoening]], American mountaineer (b. 1927) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] – [[Edward Albert]], American actor (b. 1951) | + | |
| - | * 2006 – [[Carla Benschop]], Dutch basketball player and educator (b. 1950) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] – [[Nílton Coelho da Costa]], Brazilian footballer (b. 1928) | + | |
| - | * 2007 – [[Marcel Marceau]], French actor (b. 1923) | + | |
| - | *[[2008]] – [[Thomas Dörflein]], German zookeeper (b. 1963) | + | |
| - | * 2008 – [[Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia]] (b. 1920) | + | |
| - | * 2008 – [[Petrus Schaesberg]], German painter, historian, and educator (b. 1967) | + | |
| - | *[[2009]] – [[Edward Delaney]], Irish sculptor (b. 1930) | + | |
| - | *[[2010]] – [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]], American singer and actor (b. 1928) | + | |
| - | * 2010 – [[Vyacheslav Tsaryov]], Russian footballer (b. 1971) | + | |
| - | *[[2011]] – [[Peter E. Berger]], American film editor (b. 1944) | + | |
| - | * 2011 – [[Cengiz Dağcı]], Ukrainian-English author and poet (b. 1919) | + | |
| - | * 2011 – [[Margaret Ogola]], Kenyan author (b. 1958) | + | |
| - | * 2011 – [[Whatumoana Paki]], New Zealand husband of [[Te Atairangikaahu]] (b. 1927) | + | |
| - | * 2011 – [[Knut Steen]], Norwegian sculptor (b. 1924) | + | |
| - | * 2011 – [[Vesta Williams]], American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957) | + | |
| - | *[[2012]] – [[Hector Abhayavardhana]], Sri Lankan theorist (b. 1919) | + | |
| - | * 2012 – [[Irving Adler]], American mathematician, educator, and author (b. 1913) | + | |
| - | * 2012 – [[Juan H. Cintrón García]], Puerto Rican politician, 126th [[List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico|Mayor of Ponce]] (b. 1919) | + | |
| - | * 2012 – [[Grigory Frid]], Russian composer (b. 1915) | + | |
| - | * 2012 – [[Harry Pilling]], English cricketer (b. 1943) | + | |
| - | * 2012 – [[Jan Hendrik van den Berg]], Dutch psychiatrist (b. 1914) | + | |
| - | *[[2013]] – [[Gary Brandner]], American author (b. 1930) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Jane Connell]], American actress and singer (b. 1925) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[David H. Hubel]], Canadian-American neurophysiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1926) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Álvaro Mutis]], Colombian-Mexican author and poet (b. 1923) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Dave Nichol]], Canadian businessman (b. 1940) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Howard Riopelle]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Mohan Singh]], Indian politician (b. 1945) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Hans Erich Slany]], German industrial designer, founded [[TEAMS Design]] (b. 1926) | + | |
| - | * 2013 – [[Luciano Vincenzoni]], Italian screenwriter (b. 1926) | + | |
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"George Soros became instantly famous on September 22, 1992, when, believing the Pound sterling was overvalued, he speculated heavily against it. The Bank of England was forced to withdraw the currency out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and Soros earned an estimated US$1 billion in the process. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England."" --Sholem Stein |
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Art and culture
- 1869 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.
Births
- 1862 - Maurice Barrès, French writer and provocateur (d. 1923)
- 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)
- 1895 - Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
- 1940 - Anna Karina, Danish born actress (d. 2019)
- 1946 - King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer
- 1956 - Doug Wimbish, American bass player
- 1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
- 1964 - Benoît Poelvoorde, Belgian actor
Deaths
- 1989 – Irving Berlin, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
- 2007 – Marcel Marceau, French actor (b. 1923)
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