# What happened on September 22 in history?

**Date:** September 22  
**Events recorded:** 46  
**Years spanned:** 904 – 2024  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/september/22/

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## Featured Event

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

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anura_Kumara_Dissanayake)

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## Events on this date

- **904** — The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Wen))
- **1236** — The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saule))
- **1359** — An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Araviana))
- **1499** — The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Basel_(1499)))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years'_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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Corey))
- **1711** — The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_War))
- **1761** — George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III))
- **1776** — Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale))
- **1789** — The office of United States Postmaster General is established. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postmaster_General))
- **1789** — Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rymnik))
- **1792** — Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vend%C3%A9miaire))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith))
- **1857** — The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_ship_of_the_line_Lefort))
- **1862** — A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation))
- **1866** — The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Curupayty))
- **1885** — Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Randolph_Churchill))
- **1891** — The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity))
- **1892** — A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindal_railway_incident))
- **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). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria))
- **1910** — The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_York's_Picture_House%2C_Brighton))
- **1914** — A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_22_September_1914))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_General_Steel_Strike))
- **1934** — The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresford_disaster))
- **1939** — World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine))
- **1948** — Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen))
- **1948** — Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict))
- **1953** — The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Level_Interchange))
- **1957** — In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti))
- **1960** — The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali))
- **1965** — The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_war_of_1965))
- **1966** — Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansett-ANA_Flight_149))
- **1975** — Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_GN))
- **1979** — A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident))
- **1980** — Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_invasion_of_Iran))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_exercise))
- **1991** — The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls))
- **1993** — A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bayou_Canot_rail_accident))
- **1993** — A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Sukhumi_airliner_attacks))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Alaska_Boeing_E-3_Sentry_accident))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarkovil_school_bombing))
- **2006** — Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev))
- **2013** — At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshawar_church_bombing))
- **2024** — Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anura_Kumara_Dissanayake))

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## Notable births on September 22

- **2009** — **Coco Yoshizawa** — Japanese skateboarder ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Yoshizawa))
- **2004** — **Jessie Murph** — American singer and songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Murph))
- **2000** — **Louise Christie** — British rhythm gymnast ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Christie))
- **2000** — **Stephen Crichton** — Samoan rugby league footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Crichton))
- **2000** — **Seungmin** — South Korean singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seungmin))
- **1999** — **Kim Yo-han** — South Korean singer and actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yo-han))
- **1999** — **Kim You-jung** — South Korean actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_You-jung))
- **1995** — **Nayeon** — South Korean singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayeon))
- **1994** — **Carlos Correa** — Puerto Rican-American baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Correa))
- **1994** — **Jinyoung** — South Korean singer, actor, songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinyoung_(entertainer%2C_born_1994)))

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## Notable deaths on September 22

- **2024** — **Roy Clay** — American computer scientist (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Clay))
- **2024** — **Fredric Jameson** — American academic and literary critic (born 1934) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson))
- **2023** — **Altemio Sanchez** — Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (born 1958) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altemio_Sanchez))
- **2022** — **Hilary Mantel** — British author (born 1952) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel))
- **2022** — **Pal Singh Purewal** — Punjabi engineer, author, scholar, and teacher (born 1931/1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal_Singh_Purewal))
- **2020** — **Neil Brannon** — American politician (born 1940) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Brannon))
- **2018** — **Chas Hodges** — English musician and singer (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Hodges))
- **2018** — **Edna Molewa** — South African politician (born 1957) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Molewa))
- **2016** — **Delphine Medjo** — Cameroonian politician (born 1941) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Medjo))
- **2015** — **Yogi Berra** — American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1925) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra))

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