What Happened On September 22

10 odd things that happened on September 22

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  1692 Oddly true

  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.

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  1976 Oddly true

  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.

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  1965 Oddly true

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

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  1869 First ever

  Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.

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• 1979 Weird

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

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  1726 First ever

  Bach led the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.

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  1891 First ever

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

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  1792 First ever

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

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  1726 First ever

  Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.

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  1711 First ever

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

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Observed today

• American Business Women's Day (United States)
• Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)
• Christian feast days: Digna and Emerita
• Christian feast days: Emmeram of Regensburg
• Christian feast days: Felix and Constantia
• Christian feast days: Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti)
• Christian feast days: Laud of Coutances
• Christian feast days: Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)
• Christian feast days: Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope)
• Christian feast days: Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
• Christian feast days: Sadalberga
• Christian feast days: Septimius of Iesi (this date since 1623)
• Christian feast days: Theban Legion, including: Candidus
• Christian feast days: Theban Legion, including: Maurice (Western Christianity)
• Christian feast days: Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)
• Christian feast days: September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
• Earliest date for the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere: The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
• Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)

• 2024Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka. Wikipedia →
• 2013At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan. Wikipedia →
• 2006Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany. Wikipedia →
• 1995An 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 →
• 1995The 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 →
• 1993A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. Wikipedia →
• 1993A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. Wikipedia →
• 1991The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time. Wikipedia →
• 1981During 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 →
• 1980Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War. Wikipedia →
• 1979A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. Wikipedia →
• 1976Red 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 →
• 1975Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service. Wikipedia →
• 1966Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia. Wikipedia →
• 1965The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire and after a last engagement near Dograi. Wikipedia →
• 1960The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. Wikipedia →
• 1957In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. Wikipedia →
• 1953The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles. Wikipedia →
• 1948Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift. Wikipedia →
• 1948Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League. Wikipedia →
• 1941The 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 →
• 1939World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland. Wikipedia →
• 1934The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers. Wikipedia →
• 1919The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. Wikipedia →
• 1914A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors. Wikipedia →
• 1910The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. Wikipedia →
• 1896Queen 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 →
• 1892A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive. Wikipedia →
• 1891The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa. Wikipedia →
• 1885Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement. Wikipedia →
• 1866The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War. Wikipedia →
• 1862A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln. Wikipedia →
• 1857The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. Wikipedia →
• 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. Wikipedia →
• 1792Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being. Wikipedia →
• 1789The office of United States Postmaster General is established. Wikipedia →
• 1789Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces. Wikipedia →
• 1776Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution. Wikipedia →
• 1761George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Wikipedia →
• 1726Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig. Wikipedia →
• 1711The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day North Carolina. Wikipedia →
• 1692Martha 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 →
• 1586Eighty 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 →
• 1499The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War. Wikipedia →
• 1359An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters. Wikipedia →
• 1236The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule. Wikipedia →
• 904The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. Wikipedia →