Today is Thursday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2016. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn arrives at 10:21 a.m.

Today’s birthdays: Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda is 89. Former NBA commissioner David Stern is 74. Captain Mark Phillips is 68. Actress Shari Belafonte is 62. Classical crossover singer Andrea Bocelli is 58. Singer-musician Joan Jett is 58. Actor Scott Baio is 56. Actress Bonnie Hunt is 55. Actress Tatiana Maslany is 31. Actor Tom Felton is 29. Actress Juliette Goglia is 21.

In 1792, the first French Republic was proclaimed.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

In 1911, pitcher Cy Young, 44, gained his 511th and final career victory as he hurled a 1-0 shutout for the Boston Rustlers against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field.

In 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

In 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed.

In 1985, rock and country music artists participated in ‘‘Farm Aid,’’ a concert staged in Champaign, Illinois, to help the nation’s farmers.

In 2006, a high-speed maglev train crashed in northwestern Germany, killing 23 people in the first fatal wreck involving the high-tech system.

In 2015, Pope Francis arrived from Cuba on the first visit of his life to the United States. Volkswagen AG acknowledged putting emissions-cheating software in millions of vehicles.