September 22 - Events

Events

  • 66 – Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
  • 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
  • 1499 – Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
  • 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
  • 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
  • 1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies.
  • 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 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
  • 1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. 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 Curupaity in the Paraguayan War.
  • 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
  • 1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
  • 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
  • 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
  • 1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
  • 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, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of nearly 1400 men and boys.
  • 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; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
  • 1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
  • 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
  • 1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
  • 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 cease-fire.
  • 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
  • 1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
  • 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. 47 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 Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.

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Famous quotes containing the word events:

    “Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)