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Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, President of the First Government Junta of Chile (died 1811)
Hurricane Irene (satellite image pictured) moved into the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic, making it the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to do so.
The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.
On the first day of the battle of Frigidus, the Western Roman troops of Arbogast manage to defend their positions against the Eastern Roman troops of emperor Theodosius I.
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35, a solo cantata for alto voice.
J. S. Bach led the first performance of Geist und Seele wird verwirret, a solo cantata for alto voice.
The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.
Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first time. (September 22 is celebrated by some fans as Hobbit Day, however.)
Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iranian journalist, politician and scientist, first woman Vice President of Iran
Raquel Blandón, Guatemalan lawyer and activist, First Lady of Guatemala (born 1943)
The Soviet Union's Zond 5 landed in the Indian Ocean, becoming the first spacecraft to safely return to Earth after travelling around the Moon.
The first section of Interstate 80 in Iowa opened in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
The first section of Interstate 80 in Iowa (pictured) opened in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.
Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.