UPI Almanac for Monday, Sept. 19, 2022

Today is Monday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2022 with 103 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include businessman George Cadbury in 1839; Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski in 1905; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in 1907; Austrian automobile designer Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche in 1909; British author William Golding in 1911; actor/writer/TV host James Lipton in 1926; actor Adam West in 1928; actor David McCallum in 1933 (age 89); singer Bill Medley in 1940 (age 82); singer Mama Cass Elliot in 1941; singer Freda Payne in 1942 (age 80); baseball Hall of Fame member Joe Morgan in 1943; singer/songwriter David Bromberg in 1945 (age 77); actor Randolph Mantooth in 1945 (age 77); actor Jeremy Irons in 1948 (age 74); model/actor Twiggy, born Lesley Hornby, in 1949 (age 73); television personality Joan Lunden in 1950 (age 72); actor/director Kevin Hooks in 1958 (age 64); celebrity chef Mario Batali in 1960 (age 62); actor Cheri Oteri in 1962 (age 60); country singer Trisha Yearwood in 1964 (age 58); astronaut Sunita Williams in 1965 (age 57); journalist Soledad O'Brien in 1966 (age 56); actor Sanaa Lathan in 1971 (age 51); comedian/TV host Jimmy Fallon in 1974 (age 48); actor Alison Sweeney in 1976 (age 46); singer Sara Quin in 1980 (age 42); singer Tegan Quin in 1980 (age 42); actor Kevin Zegers in 1984 (age 38); actor Zoë Chao in 1985 (age 37); actor Danielle Panabaker in 1987 (age 35); singer Pia Mia Perez in 1996 (age 26).

On this date in history:

In 1777, British soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War, but the Americans would go on to win the second battle less than a month later.

In 1881, U.S. President James Garfield, 49, who had been shot in July by a disgruntled office-seeker, died of his wounds. Vice President Chester Arthur was sworn in as the successor to Garfield, who had been president for 6 1/2 months. His assassin was executed in 1882.

In 1893, with the signing of the Electoral Bill by Gov. David Boyle, New Zealand became the first country to grant national voting rights to women.

In 1955, after a decade of rule, Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron was deposed in a military coup.

In 1957, the United States conducted its first fully contained underground nuclear weapon test in Nevada. Scientists at the time theorized the heat and pressure from the blast could've turned rocks into rubies, sapphires or even diamonds under the rubble.

In 1985, an earthquake collapsed hundreds of buildings, killed at least 7,000 people and injured thousands of others in Mexico City.

In 1988, U.S. swimmer Greg Louganis took the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the Seoul Olympics after hitting his head on the board during preliminary competition.

In 1995, The Washington Post published a manifesto by Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who carried out 16 bombings across the United States from 1978-95, killing three people. Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 and was sentenced to eight life sentences in prison.

In 2006, Thailand Premier Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in a bloodless military coup.

In 2010, 42-year-old Frenchman Philippe Croizon, a quadruple amputee, swam across the English Channel in 13 1/2 hours. Croizon covered the 21 miles with flippers attached to the stumps of his legs and special steering attachments in the arm areas.

In 2017, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook central Mexico, killing more than 350 people, including dozens of children in the rubble of a school.

In 2021, Cumbre Vieja in Spain's Canary Islands erupted, setting off the longest-known eruption period for the volcano at 85 days. The disaster killed one person and destroyed more than 3,000 structures.

A thought for the day: "There is probably no thrill in life to compare with that of turning the key in one's first house or apartment." -- American writer Belle Livingstone