SEPTEMBER 22
1964:"Tradition, tradition!" Zero Mostel plays Tevye the milkman, blessed with five headstrong daughters, in the Broadway debut of the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which will run for 3,242 performances. Based on the Yiddish stories of Sholem Aleichem, with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein, the musical depicts the changing life of Anatevka, a Jewish shtetl in czarist Russia.
1914: Commanded by Otto Weddigen, the sophisticated and deadly German submarine U-9 sinks three Royal Navy cruisers in the North Sea within a single hour, signaling the arrival of a terrifying new weapon in World War I. More than 1,400 British sailors are killed by the U-boat's torpedoes.
1975: Vietnam War
veteran Oliver Sipple saves the life of President Gerald Ford, pushing
aside Sara Jane Moore as she pulls a gun on the president at the St.
Francis Hotel in San Francisco. It is the second assassination attempt
on Ford in 17 days.
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