Today in History - History - September 22nd

1869Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold" premieres in Munich

1991Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic

1976"Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open

1927Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title

66Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

1969SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs

1817John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State

1990Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits

1989"Baywatch", starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, debuts on NBC

1927Tom Lasorda [Thomas], Norristown, Pennsylvania, baseball manager (LA Dodgers)

1957Nick Cave, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australian singer/songwriter (Bad Seeds-Murder Ballads)

1958Andrea Bocelli, Pisa, Italian tenor (The Prayer)

1515Anne of Cleves, Düsseldorf, Queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII

1973Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (50) weds Jean Forsyth Clyde

1794Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini

2004Race car driver Al Unser Jr (42) weds Gina Soto

1940"Adventures of Superman" actor George Reeves (26) weds Ellanora Needles at the Church of Our Savior in San Gabriel, California

1989Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101

1956Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79