September 22 - Events

Events

• 66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
• 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat theLivonian 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 Englandand 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-Strelitzare crowned King and Queen, respectively, of theKingdom of Great Britain.
• 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during 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 Vendémiaire 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 reigningmonarch 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: Peña 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 theInvasion of Poland.
• 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews inVinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
• 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 theMali 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.
• 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled byOliver Sipple.
• 1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed nearBouvet 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 theHuntington 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.
• 1995 – 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 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, 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.