General Frisbie

• ... that General Frisbie (pictured) accidentally sank two ships and disabled a third, was demoted to a Commander, and then turned into a salmon cannery?
• ... that Israa al-Ghomgham could become the first Saudi woman to be beheaded as punishment for defending human rights?
• ... that under low relative humidity conditions, protonymph pyroglyphid mites may die, or they may enter a state of diapause until conditions improve?
• ... that Austrian fencer Ernst Königsgarten once performed in front of King Edward VII?
• ... that the expedition to Valdivia seized and then abandoned the last Dutch possession on the Pacific coast of America?
• ... that after Australian rules footballer Nathan Murphy was drafted by Collingwood, cricketer Shane Warne rang club president Eddie McGuire to commend the selection?
• ... that a verse from Psalm 36 is seen as endorsing animal welfare and animal rights?
• ... that the suspected Mexican drug lord José González Valencia possessed an official passport that had all the security features needed for international travel, issued under a false name?

Eliud Kipchoge

• A Tanzanian ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 136 people.
• Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge (pictured) runs the Berlin Marathon in world record time.
• NASA's ICESat-2 satellite is launched, the last mission to use the Delta II rocket.
• Typhoon Mangkhut impacts the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, resulting in more than 90 fatalities.
• Hurricane Florence impacts the East Coast of the United States, causing at least 30 deaths.

September 22: Independence Day in Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania

Richard Wagner

• 1499 – The Swabian War between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg came to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Basel.
• 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.
• 1948 – Led by Gail Halvorsen, the U.S. Army Air Forces began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
• 1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War.
• 1993 – A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.

John Biddle (d. 1662) · Stephen D. Lee (b. 1833) · Aurelio López (d. 1992)