Today in History: September 22, Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Today is Sunday, Sept. 22, the 266th time of 2024. There are 100 days near successful the year. Autumn begins astatine 8:43 a.m. EDT.

Today successful history:

On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring each enslaved radical successful Confederate states should beryllium freed arsenic of Jan. 1, 1863, if the states did not extremity the warring and rejoin the Union.

Also connected this date:

In 1776, during the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged arsenic a spy by the British successful New York.

In 1957, Haitian women were allowed to ballot for the archetypal time, 153 years aft Haiti became an autarkic country; François Duvalier was elected president.

In 1975, Sara Jane Moore fired 2 shots successful an unsuccessful effort to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford extracurricular a San Francisco hotel, missing Ford by inches.

In 1980, the Persian Gulf struggle betwixt Iran and Iraq erupted into a full-scale warfare that would proceed for astir 8 years.

In 1985, stone and state euphony artists participated successful “Farm Aid,” a performance staged successful Champaign, Illinois, to assistance the nation’s farmers.

In 1993, 47 radical were killed erstwhile an Amtrak rider bid fell disconnected a span and crashed into Big Bayou Canot adjacent Mobile, Alabama.

In 2014, the United States and 5 Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State radical successful Syria, sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets.

In 2017, arsenic the standard of the harm from Hurricane Maria started to go clearer, Puerto Rican officials said they could not interaction much than fractional of the communities successful the U.S. territory, wherever each powerfulness had been knocked retired to the island’s 3.4 cardinal people.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Singer-choreographer-actor Toni Basil is 81.
• Musician King Sunny Adé (ah-DAY’) is 78.
• Football Hall of Famer Harold Carmichael is 75.
• Rock vocalist David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) is 73.
• Actor Shari Belafonte is 70.
• Singer Debby Boone is 68.
• Country vocalist June Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 68.
• Singer Nick Cave is 67.
• Singer Andrea Bocelli (an-DRAY’-ah boh-CHEL’-ee) is 66.
• Singer-musician Joan Jett is 66.
• Actor Scott Baio is 64.
• Actor Bonnie Hunt is 63.
• Actor Mireille Enos is 49.
• Soccer subordinate Thiago Silva is 40.
• Actor Tatiana Maslany is 39.
• Actor Tom Felton is 37.
• Actor Teyonah Parris is 37.
• Olympic golden medal skateboarder Coco Yoshizawa is 15.