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23 September 2022 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 23 September 2022 was a Friday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2022
- The Irish chart song for 2022 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals.
- Top Film of 2022
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 23 September is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 23 September 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 23 September 2022 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 23 September
- 1957 Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School.
- 1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.
- 1973 Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1999 Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.
- 2022 Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
Famous people born on 23 September
- Augustus, Roman emperor (born -63)
- Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1949)
- Chris Johnson, American football player (born 1985)
- Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (1930–2004)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2022 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 4 February – RTÉ selected Brooke Scullion to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy in May with the song "That's Rich".
- 24 February – The taoiseach condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine as "an outrageous and moral breach of the most fundamental principles of international law."
- 1 April – Atlantic Technological University, comprising the three institutes of technology in the northern and western regions – Letterkenny IT, Galway-Mayo IT and Sligo IT – formally came into operation, under its president Dr. Orla Flynn.
Life in Ireland in 2022
Taoiseach
Micheál Martin
Petrol (per litre)
€1.92/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.85
Average House
€370,000
Weekly Wage
€620
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