On This Day — 22 September

2000s

2024

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

Anura Kumara Dissanayake

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2013

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

Peshawar church bombing

2006

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

Maglev

1900s

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 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident

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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.

Nagarkovil school bombing

1993

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

Big Bayou Canot rail accident

1993

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

1993 Sukhumi airliner attacks

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1991

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

Dead Sea Scrolls

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.

Military exercise

1980

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

Iraqi invasion of Iran

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1979

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

Vela incident

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.

Scarlet GN

1975

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

Sara Jane Moore

1966

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

Ansett-ANA Flight 149

1965

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.

India–Pakistan war of 1965

1960

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

Mali

1957

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

Haiti

1953

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

Four Level Interchange

1948

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

Gail Halvorsen

1948

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

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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.

The Holocaust in Ukraine

1939

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

World War II

1934

The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.

Gresford disaster

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.

1919 General Steel Strike

1914

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

Action of 22 September 1914

1910

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

Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton

1800s

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).

Queen Victoria

1892

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

Lindal railway incident

1891

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

Hydroelectricity

1885

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

Lord Randolph Churchill

1866

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

Battle of Curupayty

1862

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

Emancipation Proclamation

1857

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

Russian ship of the line Lefort

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.

Joseph Smith

Before 1800

1792

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

Vendémiaire

1789

The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

United States Postmaster General

1789

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

Battle of Rymnik

1776

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.

Nathan Hale

1761

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

George III

1711

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

Tuscarora War

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.

Martha Corey

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.

Eighty Years' War