Editing September 22 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[904]] &ndash; The warlord [[Zhu Quanzhong]] kills [[Emperor Zhaozong of Tang|Emperor Zhaozong]], the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Xiong |first=Victor Cunrui |title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval China |year=2017 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=9781442276154 |edition=2nd |series=Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras Series |pages=848–849 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1236]] &ndash; The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the [[Battle of Saule]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baranauskas |first=Tomas |author-link=Tomas Baranauskas |title=Ar priminsime Europai apie Šiaulių mūšį? |url=https://www.delfi.lt/news/ringas/lit/tbaranauskas-ar-priminsime-europai-apie-siauliu-musi.d?id=10760927 |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=DELFI |language=lt}}</ref>
*[[1359]] &ndash; An Aragonese cavalry force defeats a superior Castilian cavalry force in the [[Battle of Araviana]] during the [[War of the Two Peters]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kagay |first1=Donald J. |last2=Villalon |first2=L. J. Andrew |title=Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia: Aragon vs. Castile and the War of the Two Pedros |date=17 June 2021 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-42505-7 |pages=100–102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ba0zEAAAQBAJ |access-date=1 October 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1499]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Basel (1499)|Treaty of Basel]] concludes the [[Swabian War]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schelbert |first=Leo |title=Historical Dictionary of Switzerland |year=2014 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=9781442233515 |edition=2nd |series=Historical Dictionaries of Europe Series |pages=126}}</ref>
*[[1586]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: A Spanish force led by the [[Alfonso Félix de Ávalos Aquino y Gonzaga, Marquis del Vasto|Marquis del Vasto]] successfully fights its way past a joint [[Kingdom of England|English]]/[[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] ambush in the [[Battle of Zutphen]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Stewart|first=Alan|title=Philip Sidney: A Double Life|location=New York|publisher=Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press|date=2001|isbn=9780312282875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XEjWSmFeacC|pages=310–312}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1692]] &ndash; [[Martha Corey]], [[Mary Eastey]], [[Alice Parker (Salem witch trials)|Alice Parker]], [[Mary Parker (Salem witch trials)|Mary Parker]], [[Ann Pudeator]], [[Wilmot Redd]], [[Margaret Scott (Salem witch trials)|Margaret Scott]], and [[Samuel Wardwell]] are hanged, the last of those to be executed in the [[Salem witch trials]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Goss|first=K. David|title=Daily Life During the Salem Witch Trials|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2012|isbn=9780313374586|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9E7EEAAAQBAJ|page=46}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; The first attacks of the [[Tuscarora War]] begin in present-day [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Marley|first=David|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present. Vol. 1|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2008|isbn=9781598841008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VafOEAAAQBAJ|page=360}}</ref>
*[[1761]] &ndash; [[George III]] and [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] are [[Coronation of George III and Charlotte|crowned King and Queen]], respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cannon |first=John |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2133200832 |title=George III |year=2007 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780191550102 |pages=13 |id={{ProQuest|2133200832}} |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Nathan Hale]] is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ortner |first=Mary J. |title=Captain Nathan Hale |url=http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan_2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828152535/http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan_2.htm |archive-date=2012-08-28 |website=The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; The office of [[United States Postmaster General]] is established.
*  1789   &ndash; [[Battle of Rymnik]]: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
*[[1792]] &ndash; ''Primidi [[Vendémiaire]]'' of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1857]] &ndash; The Russian warship ''[[Russian ship of the line Lefort|Lefort]]'' capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
*[[1862]] &ndash; A preliminary version of the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] is released by Abraham Lincoln.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 |url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals_iv/sections/transcript_preliminary_emancipation.html |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]}}</ref>
*[[1866]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Curupayty]] is Paraguay's only significant victory in the [[Paraguayan War]].
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Lord Randolph Churchill]] makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the [[Irish Home Rule movement]].
*[[1891]] &ndash; The first [[hydropower plant]] of [[Finland]] is commissioned along the [[Tammerkoski]] rapids in [[Tampere]], [[Pirkanmaa]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oy |first=Kemijoki |title=Vesistörakentamisen historiaa |url=https://www.suomenkalakirjasto.fi/vesistorakentamisen-historiaa/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130045026/https://www.suomenkalakirjasto.fi/vesistorakentamisen-historiaa/ |archive-date=2023-01-30 |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=Suomen Kalakirjasto |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vesiputoukset ja vesivoima Suomessa |url=https://www.suomenvesiputoukset.fi/tietoa-suomen-vesiputouksista/vesiputoukset-ja-vesivoima-suomessa/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224041/https://www.suomenvesiputoukset.fi/tietoa-suomen-vesiputouksista/vesiputoukset-ja-vesivoima-suomessa/ |archive-date=2023-03-25 |website=Suomen Vesiputoukset |language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; A locomotive shunting [[Lindal railway incident|falls into a hole in the ground]], leading to the burial of the locomotive.
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter [[Elizabeth II]] on 9 September 2015).<ref name="renamed_from_2015_on_20240922191642">{{Citation |last=Gander |first=Kashmira |title=Queen Elizabeth II to become Britain's longest reigning monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria |date=26 August 2015 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/queen-elizabeth-ii-to-become-britains-longest-reigning-monarch-surpassing-queen-victoria-10473729.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |place=London |access-date=9 September 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919003603/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/queen-elizabeth-ii-to-become-britains-longest-reigning-monarch-surpassing-queen-victoria-10473729.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1910]] &ndash; The [[Duke of York's Picture House]] opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-27 |title=Cine-files: Duke of York's Picturehouse, Brighton |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/27/cine-files-duke-yorks-brighton |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1914]] &ndash; A German submarine [[action of 22 September 1914|sinks]] three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.
*[[1919]] &ndash; The [[steel strike of 1919]], led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
*[[1934]] &ndash; The [[Gresford disaster]] in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: A joint [[German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk]] is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Gail Halvorsen]] [[Operation Little Vittles|officially starts]] [[Raisin Bombers|parachuting candy]] to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1949-05-14 |title=Highlights in the News: 'Little Vittles' Comes to an End |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/8905935/ |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=Portland Press Herald |language=en |publication-place=Portland, Maine}}</ref>
*  1948   &ndash; [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israeli-Palestine conflict]]: The [[All-Palestine Government]] is established by the [[Arab League]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.palestine-studies.org/enakba/diplomacy/Shlaim,%20The%20Rise%20and%20Fall%20of%20the%20All%20Palestine%20Govt.pdf|title=The Rise and Fall of the All-Palestine Government in Gaza|last=Shlaim|first=Avi|date=2013-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514063910/http://www.palestine-studies.org/enakba/diplomacy/Shlaim,%20The%20Rise%20and%20Fall%20of%20the%20All%20Palestine%20Govt.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-05-14|access-date=2018-10-29}}</ref>
*[[1953]] &ndash; The [[Four Level Interchange]], first [[stack interchange]] in the world opened in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite web|title=On This Day In Automotive History Motoring|website=365 Days Of Motoring|date=22 September 1953 |url=https://365daysofmotoring.com/the-first-four-level-or-stack-interchange-in-the-world-opened-in-los-angeles-california-at-the-intersection-of-the-harbor-hollywood-pasadena-and-santa-ana-freeways-where-32-la/}}</ref>
*[[1957]] &ndash; In Haiti, [[François Duvalier]] is elected president.
*[[1960]] &ndash; The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the [[Mali Federation]].
*[[1965]] &ndash; The [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]] between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
*[[1966]] &ndash; Twenty-four people are killed when [[Ansett-ANA Flight 149]] crashes in [[Winton, Queensland]], [[Australia]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 832 Viscount VH-RMI Winton, QLD|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19660922-1|access-date=2021-09-21|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Sara Jane Moore]] tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
*[[1976]] – [[Scarlet GN|Red Dye No. 4]] is banned by the US [[Food and Drug Administration]] after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 23, 1976 |title=F.D.I. Bans Use of Red No. 4 Dye And Carbon Black in Food Items |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/23/archives/fdi-bans-use-of-red-no-4-dye-and-carbon-black-in-food-items.html |access-date=20 February 2025 |work=New York Times}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; A [[Vela incident|bright flash]], resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the [[Prince Edward Islands]]. Its cause is never determined.
*[[1980]] &ndash; Iraq [[Iraqi invasion of Iran|invades]] Iran, sparking the nearly eight year [[Iran–Iraq War]].
*[[1981]] &ndash; During a [[military exercise]], a [[Turkish Air Force]] [[Northrop F-5]] [[Pancarköy air disaster|crashes]] in [[Babaeski]] as a result of [[pilot error]], killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 June 2014 |title=Accident Northrop F-5A 64-13340 |url=https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/167195 |access-date=8 November 2023 |website=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Newspaper |first=Milliyet |date=22 September 2018 |title=Pancarköy faciasının tanığı emekli Binbaşı Rıfat Kılıç: Dinmeyen acıya mahkum edildim. (Pancarköy Disaster's alive witness, retired Major Rıfat Kılıç: I'm condemning to unending pain.) |work=[[Milliyet]] |url=https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/pancarkoy-faciasinin-tanigi-emekli-binbasi-rifat-kilic-dinmeyen-aciya-mahk-m-edildim-2746924 |access-date=9 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; The [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] are made available to the public for the first time.
*[[1993]] &ndash; A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing [[Big Bayou Canot rail accident|the deadliest train wreck]] in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
*  1993   &ndash; A [[1993 Sukhumi airliner attacks|Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down]] by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
*[[1995]] &ndash; An E-3B AWACS [[1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident|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   &ndash; 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-09-26 |title=Remembering Nagarkovil |url=https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/remembering-nagarkovil |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222180305/https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/remembering-nagarkovil |archive-date=2022-12-22 |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=[[Tamil Guardian]]}}</ref>
*[[2006]] &ndash; Twenty-three people were killed in a [[maglev]] [[Lathen train collision|train collision]] in [[Lathen]], [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5370564.stm | title= Deadly crash on German monorail | date = September 22, 2006| publisher= BBC News| access-date= September 5, 2021 | language= en}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; At least 75 people are killed in a [[Peshawar church bombing|suicide bombing]] at a Christian church in [[Peshawar]], Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-09-22 |title=Pakistan church blast kills dozens |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-24193734 |access-date=2023-07-09}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[Anura Kumara Dissanayake]] is [[2024 Sri Lankan presidential election|elected]] as the 9th [[President of Sri Lanka|President Of Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farzan|first=Zulfick |title=From 3% to President: Who Is Sri Lanka's Anura Kumara Dissanayake? |url=https://www.newsfirst.lk/2024/09/23/from-3-to-president-who-is-sri-lanka-s-anura-kumara-dissanayake |access-date=2024-09-23 |website=english.newsfirst.lk |language=en}}</ref>
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