September 22 in History

Historical Events on September 22

904

The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
1236

The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499

Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
1586

Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1598

English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692

The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
1711

The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1761

George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1789

The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789

Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792

Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823

Joseph Smith states he found the golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857

The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862

Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866

Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.
1885

Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888

The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1892

Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
1896

Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1910

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914

German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
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.
1927

Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934

An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937

Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939

World War II: Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941

The Holocaust in Ukraine: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 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.
1948

Gail Halvorsen officially started parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Air lift.
1957

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1960

The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire.
1975

Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Secret Service agent Oliver Sipple.
1979

A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
1980

Iraq invades Iran.
1991

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
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.
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

Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
2013

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

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