SomeFacts | September 22

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 ...