September 22

Historic Events

2024

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka. ›

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. ›

1981

During 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. ›

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. ›

1976

Red 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. ›

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. ›

1953

The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles. ›

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 1,500 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 (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015). ›

1892

A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive. ›

1891

The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa. ›

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 first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina. ›

1692

Martha 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. ›

1586

Eighty 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. ›

1499

The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War. ›

1359

An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters. ›

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. ›