ON THIS DAY sept 22 1789 - The U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General. 1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed. 1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863. 1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone. 1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were killed. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine. 1927 - In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous long-count fight. 1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully. 1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted. 1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps. 1964 - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. debuted on NBC-TV. 1966 - The U.S. lunar probe Surveyor 2 crashed into the moon. 1969 - Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run. 1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war. 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff. 1988 - Canadas government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II. They also promised compensation. 1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific. 1991 - An article in the London newspaper The Mail revealed that John Cairncross admitted to being the fifth man in the Soviet Unions British spy ring. 1992 - The U.N. General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1994 - The U.S. upgraded its military control in Haiti. 1998 - The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russias nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country. 1998 - U.S. President Clinton addressed the United Nations and told world leaders to end all nuclear tests for all time. He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate. 1998 - Keely Smith received a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame
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