September 22Birthdays & History

On this day: September 22 in history

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1. 904The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.Asia
2. 1236The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.Europe
3. 1359An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters.Europe
4. 1499The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.Europe
5. 1586Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del Vasto successfully fights its way past a joint English/Dutch ambush in the Battle of Zutphen.Europe
6. 1692Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the Salem witch trials.North America
7. 1711The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina.North America
8. 1726Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.Europe
9. 1761George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.Europe
10. 1776Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.North America
11. 1789The office of United States Postmaster General is established.North America
12. 1789Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.EuropeMiddle East
13. 1792Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.Europe
14. 1823Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.North America
15. 1857The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.Europe
16. 1862A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.North America
17. 1866The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.Latin America
18. 1885Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.Europe
19. 1891The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.Europe
20. 1892A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.Europe
21. 1896Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).Europe
22. 1910The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.Europe
23. 1914A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.Europe
24. 1919The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.North America
25. 1934The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.Europe
26. 1939World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.Europe
27. 1941The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.Europe
28. 1948Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.Middle East
29. 1948Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.Europe
30. 1953The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.North America
31. 1957In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.Latin America
32. 1960The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.Africa
33. 1965The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire and after a last engagement near Dograi.Asia
34. 1966Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.Oceania
35. 1975Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.North America
36. 1976Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.North America
37. 1979A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.Africa
38. 1980Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.Middle East
39. 1981During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.Middle East
40. 1991The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.North America
41. 1993A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.North America
42. 1993A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.Europe
43. 1995The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.Asia
44. 1995An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.North America
45. 2006Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.Europe
46. 2013At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.Asia
47. 2024Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.Asia

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