Today in History - History - September 22nd

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

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

1991Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic

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

1978Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit

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

1993Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game

1993Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin

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

1817John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State

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

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

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

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

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

1794Physicist Alessandro Volta (49) weds Teresa Peregrini

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

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

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