Shimla, Sept. 22 Keekli Bureau
2015
American baseball player, manager, and coach Yogi Berra, who won a record 10 World Series while a catcher with the New York Yankees and was known for his unintentionally amusing non sequiters, died at age 90.
2002
Hundreds of thousands of rural protesters converged on London to demonstrate in favour of foxhunting, which two years later the House of Commons banned in England and Wales.
1999
The dramatic series The West Wing, which was created by Aaron Sorkin, debuted on American television; it enjoyed high ratings with its depiction of the inner workings of the administration of a fictional U.S. president.
1994
The first episode of Friends aired on NBC, and the show became one of the most popular sitcoms in the United States.
1989
American composer Irving Berlin, who was perhaps the greatest and most enduring of American songwriters, died in New York City.
1980
The Iran-Iraq War began when Iraqi armed forces invaded western Iran along the countries’ joint border; fighting continued until 1988, and a formal peace agreement was signed in 1990.
1958
Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, who was noted for his unique blend of opera and pop music, was born.
1940
Jean Decoux, the French governor-general of Indochina appointed by the Vichy government after the fall of France, concluded an agreement with the Japanese that permitted the stationing of 30,000 Japanese troops in Indochina.
1927
Gene Tunney successfully defended his world heavyweight boxing title by defeating Jack Dempsey after the controversial “long count” in the seventh round.
1922
Chinese-born American theoretical physicist Chen Ning Yang, corecipient with Tsung-Dao Lee of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957, was born.
1888
The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published, and it became famous for its richly illustrated articles on the various geographic regions of the world.
1776
American officer Nathan Hale was hanged by the British for spying during the American Revolution.
1692
In what was to be the last executions during the Salem witch trials, eight people were hanged.
1609
Spain’s Philip III issued a royal order for deportation of the Moriscos (Christians of Moorish ancestry).
530
Pope Felix IV died, having named Boniface II as his successor.
