Historical Events on September 22, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on September 22nd This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2013 | At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
| 2006 | Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany. |
| 1995 | An 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. |
| 1995 | The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren. |
| 1993 | A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. |
| 1993 | A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. |
| 1991 | The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time. |
| 1980 | Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War. |
| 1979 | A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. |
| 1975 | Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service. |
| 1966 | Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia. |
| 1965 | The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire. |
| 1960 | The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. |
| 1957 | In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. |
| 1948 | Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift. |
| 1948 | Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League. |
| 1941 | The 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. |
| 1939 | World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland. |
| 1934 | The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers. |
| 1919 | The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. |
| 1914 | A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors. |
| 1910 | The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. |
| 1896 | Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. |
| 1892 | Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost. |
| 1891 | The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.[1] |
| 1885 | Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. |
| 1866 | The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War. |
| 1862 | A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln. |
| 1857 | The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. |
| 1823 | Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried. |
| 1792 | Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being. |
| 1789 | The office of United States Postmaster General is established. |
| 1789 | Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces. |
| 1776 | Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution. |
| 1761 | George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 1711 | The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina. |
| 1692 | The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released. |
| 1586 | The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch. |
| 1499 | The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War. |
| 1236 | The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule. |
| 904 | The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. |
Famous People Born on September 22
Here is a random list who born on September 22. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1949 | Jim McGinty, Australian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia |
| 1923 | Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (d. 2014) |
| 1942 | Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal |
| 1878 | Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967) |
| 1900 | William Spratling, American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967) |
| 1999 | Kim Yoo-jung, South Korean actress |
| 1980 | Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player |
| 1955 | Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player and coach |
| 1957 | Steve Carney, English footballer (d. 2013) |
| 1929 | Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2020) |
Famous People Deaths On September 22
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on September 22. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1158 | Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (b. c. 1114) |
| 2008 | Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963) |
| 2007 | ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (b. 1911) |
| 1554 | Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510) |
| 2006 | Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951) |
| 2009 | Edward Delaney, Irish sculptor (b. 1930) |
| 1072 | Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, poet, and politician (b. 1007) |
| 1957 | Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) |
| 1952 | Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865) |
| 2013 | Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1930) |
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