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Historical events that occurred on 22 September. Year Event


66 Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

1499 Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.

1586 Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over England and Dutch.


1598 Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.

1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain's North American colonies.


1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.


1776 Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.

1784 Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.


1789 The office of United States Postmaster General is established.


1789 Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.


1792 Primidi Vendemiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar.


1823 Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were buried.


1851 The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.


1862 Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.


1866 Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.


1869 Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.



1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.



1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.


1893 The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.



1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.


1908 The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.


1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.



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.


1927 Jack Dempsey loses the 'Long Count' boxing match to Gene Tunney.


1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.


1937 Spanish Civil War: Pena Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.


1939 Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.


1944 World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.


1955 In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.


1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.


1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.


1975Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.


1979 The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.



1980 Iraq invades Iran.

1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.


1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.


1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.



1994 the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flat?y in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.


1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple birds strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.



1995 Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 dies, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.


2003 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.