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On this day - September 22
904 — The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the ...
1236 — The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in ...
1359 — An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian ...
1499 — The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
1586 — Eighty Years' War: A Spanish force led by the Marquis del ...
1692 — Martha Corey, Mary Eastey, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann ...
1711 — The first attacks of the Tuscarora War begin in present-day ...
1761 — George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned ...
1776 — Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American ...
1789 — Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied ...
1789 — The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1792 — Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican ...
1823 — Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after ...
1857 — The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm ...
1862 — A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is ...
1866 — The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant ...
1885 — Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition ...
1891 — The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along ...
1892 — A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading ...
1896 — Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as ...
1910 — The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now ...
1914 — A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a ...
1919 — The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association ...
1934 — The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
1939 — World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in ...
1941 — The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the ...
1948 — Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is ...
1948 — Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children ...
1953 — The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the ...
1957 — In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
1960 — The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of ...
1965 — The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over ...
1966 — Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 ...
1975 — Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald ...
1976 — Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration ...
1979 — A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, ...
1980 — Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq ...
1981 — During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 ...
1991 — The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the ...
1993 — A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile ...
1993 — A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, ...
1995 — The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka ...
1995 — An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska ...
2006 — Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in ...
2013 — At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a ...
2024 — Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of ...