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Here is the anniversaries for September 22nd. I have liberally borrowed from Wikipedia for this and most of my journal entries on Teaspoon. I don’t generally allow the redirects back to Wikipedia because I find it difficult to read and also stifles the discussion on the various anniversaries and dates.
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- 480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
- 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
- 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
- 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1692 – The last people hanged for witchcraft in England’s North American colonies takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
- 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; 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.
- 1941 – World War II: 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.
- 1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 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.