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

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Year Name
1971 Luther Reigns, American actor and wrestler
2000 Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer
1953 Ségolène Royal, French politician
1951 David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter
1762 Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (d. 1850)
1957 Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1694 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1773)
1961 Liam Fox, Scottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1909 John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (d. 1983)
1547 Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1590)
Famous People Deaths On September 22

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Date Name
1934 Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge (b. 1876)
2007 ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá, last Hand of the Cause of God in the Baháʼí Faith (b. 1911)
1756 Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (b. 1688)
1554 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1852 William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783)
1969 Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
1777 John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699)
2020 Neil Brannon, American politician (b. 1940)
2008 Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
1993 Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (b. 1903)