Today in History - History - September 22nd

199933rd Country Music Association Award: Shania Twain, Martina McBride & Tim McGraw wins

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open

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

1598Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel.

1817John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State

1993Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin

1991Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory

1991Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic

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

1978Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit

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

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

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

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

1794Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini

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

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

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

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