September 22 in history
Events on September 22
Notable events that happened on September 22 in past years.
- 2024
Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
Wikipedia article: Anura Kumara Dissanayake - 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 article: 1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident - 1991
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
Wikipedia article: Dead Sea Scrolls - 1979
A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
Wikipedia article: Vela incident - 1966
Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
Wikipedia article: Ansett-ANA Flight 149 - 1957
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
Wikipedia article: Haiti - 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 article: The Holocaust in Ukraine - 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 article: 1919 General Steel Strike - 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 article: Queen Victoria - 1866
The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Curupayty - 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 article: Joseph Smith - 1789
Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Rymnik - 1726
Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
Wikipedia article: Johann Sebastian Bach - 1499
The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
- 904
The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
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