September 22

What happened that day?

• 904: The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.
• 1236: The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
• 1499: Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War.
• 1586: Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
• 1598: English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
• 1692: The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
• 1711: The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
• 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 American Revolution.
• 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 one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
• 1823: Joseph Smith states he found the golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
• 1857: The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
• 1862: Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
• 1866: Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War.
• 1885: Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
• 1888: The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• 1892: Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
• 1896: Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• 1910: The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• 1914: German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.
• 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, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
• 1939: World War II: Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
• 1941: The Holocaust in [Ukraine](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine): On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 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.
• 1948: Gail Halvorsen officially started parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Air lift.
• 1957: In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
• 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 ceasefire.
• 1975: Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Secret Service agent Oliver Sipple.
• 1979: A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
• 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. Forty-seven 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 the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
• 2013: At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.