History for September 22

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Scott Baio 1961 - Actor ("Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi")

• 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.
• 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.
• 1964 - "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." debuted on NBC-TV.
• 1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.