Sept 22
1692 The last eight people - Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker - are hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony; 19 are hanged overall, with six other deaths caused by the hysteria
1735 Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" (actually First Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street
1773 Benjamin Franklin publishes a hoax letter, "An Edict by the King of Prussia," in the Public Advertiser, criticizing Britain's colonial policies in the American colonies
1869 Richard Wagner's opera "Das Rheingold," the first piece of his "Ring" cycle, premieres in Munich, Germany
1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that eight White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
1965 Ceasefire between India and Pakistan goes into effect, ending the Indo-Pakistani War
1980 Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway
1994 "Friends," a TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer, premieres on NBC
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