Today in History - History - September 22nd

1978Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit

19752nd assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco

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

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

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

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

1877Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he spoke against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools

1962Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall

1973Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State

1976"Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett debuts

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

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

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

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

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

1794Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini

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

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