History Events on September 22

The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.

#Nagerkovil_school_bombing

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

#Mali_Federation

The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.

#Gresford_disaster

A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.

#Emancipation_Proclamation

The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

#Steel_strike_of_1919

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.

#1995_Alaska_Boeing_E-3_Sentry_accident

The last hanging of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials; others are all eventually released.

#Salem_witch_trials

Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.

#Spanish_Civil_War

Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.

#Battle_of_Rymnik

World War II: A joint German-Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.

#World_War_II

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.

#Joseph_Smith

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

#Queen_Victoria

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.

#Nathan_Hale

The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.

#Treaty_of_Basel_(1499)

The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

#United_States_Postmaster_General

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

#Vendémiaire

Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.

#Israeli-Palestinian_conflict

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

#Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

#François_Duvalier

The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.

#Battle_of_Zutphen

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.

#Dead_Sea_Scrolls

The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

#Battle_of_Curupayty

The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

#Battle_of_Saule

The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.

#Russian_ship_of_the_line_Lefort

A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.

#Action_of_22_September_1914

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.

#The_Holocaust_in_Ukraine

Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

#Lord_Randolph_Churchill

At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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

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

Iraq invades Iran.

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

Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.

Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

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

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

Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.

The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

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

The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.

The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.