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September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 100 days remain until the end of the year. It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere, though sometimes this falls on September 21 or September 23 instead.

Events

  • 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
  • 1236 – The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
  • 1499 – The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
  • 1586 – The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
  • 1692 – The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others 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 the American Revolution.
  • 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.
  • 1792Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
  • 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.
  • 1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
  • 1862 – A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
  • 1866 – The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
  • 1885Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
  • 1892 – Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
  • 1896Queen 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 – A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
  • 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.
  • 1934 – The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
  • 1939World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
  • 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.
  • 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.[1]
  • 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 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
  • 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
  • 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.
  • 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 – 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.
  • 2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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