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This day in history: 22 September

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409 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 22 September.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.

Holidays and observances

American Business Women's Day (United States)

Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)

Christian feast days: Digna and Emerita

Christian feast days: Emmeram of Regensburg

Christian feast days: Felix and Constantia

Christian feast days: Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti)

Christian feast days: Laud of Coutances

Christian feast days: Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)

Christian feast days: Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast days: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope

Christian feast days: Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope)

Christian feast days: Sadalberga

Events

2024Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.

2013At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

2006Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.

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.

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.

1993A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.

1993A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

1991The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.

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.

1980Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.

1979A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.

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.

1975Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.

1966Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.

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.

1960The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

1957In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

1953The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.

1948Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

1948Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.

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.

1939World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.

1934The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.

1919The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

1914A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.

1910The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

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).

1892A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.

1891The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.

1885Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

1866The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

1862A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.

1857The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.

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.

1792Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.

1789Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.

1789The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

1776Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.

1761George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1726Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.

Born on this day

2009Coco Yoshizawa, Japanese skateboarder

2004Jessie Murph, American singer and songwriter

2000Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast

2000Seungmin, South Korean singer

2000Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer

1999Curry Barker, American filmmaker and actor

1999Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor

1999Kim You-jung, South Korean actress

1995Nayeon, South Korean singer

1994Alexander Wennberg, Swedish ice hockey player

1994Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player

1994Haason Reddick, American football player

1994Jinyoung, South Korean singer, actor, songwriter

1992Philip Hindes, English track cyclist

1991Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player

1990Denard Robinson, American football player

1989Jon Bass, American actor

1989Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

1989Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player

1988Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model

1987Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player

1987Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist

1987Teyonah Parris, American actress

1987Tom Felton, English actor

1987Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer

1985Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer

1985Ibragim Todashev, Russian-American mixed martial artist (died 2013)

1985Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer

1985Jerma985, American internet personality

1985Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress

1984Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer

1983Glenn Loovens, Dutch professional footballer

1982Billie Piper, English actress and singer

1982Katie Lowes, American actress

1982Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer

1981Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player

1981Ashley Eckstein, American actress

1981Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano

1981Janne Niskala, Finnish ice hockey player

1981Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter

Died on this day

2024Fredric Jameson, American academic and literary critic (born 1934)

2024Roy Clay, American computer scientist (born 1929)

2023Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958)

2022Carlos Balá, Argentine actor and comedian (born 1925)

2022Hilary Mantel, British author (born 1952)

2022Pal Singh Purewal, Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932)

2020Neil Brannon, American politician (born 1940)

2018Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (born 1943)

2018Edna Molewa, South African politician (born 1957)

2016Delphine Medjo, Cameroonian politician (born 1941)

2015Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925)

2014Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945)

2014Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1923)

2014Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936)

2014Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927)

2013Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)

2013David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

2013Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (born 1930)

2013Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)

2013Jane Connell, American actress and singer (born 1925)

2013Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926)

2012Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)

2012Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)

2012Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)

2012Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)

2012Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)

2011Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (born 1924)

2010Eddie Fisher, American singer (born 1928)

2010Jackie Burroughs, British-born Canadian actress (born 1939)

2010Vyacheslav Tsaryov, Russian footballer (born 1971)

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