Today in History - History - September 22nd

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open

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

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

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

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

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

66Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

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

1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open

1997Elton John releases Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997"

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

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

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

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

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

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