Javasatu:Selected anniversaries/September 22
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Richard Wagner
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Peace Corps logo
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Abraham Lincoln
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François Duvalier
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Nordhordland Bridge
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Gail Halvorsen
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Damage from the great fire of Smyrna
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| September equinox (19:21 UTC, 2021); | refimprove section |
| OneWebDay; | maybe not a thing anymore; in 2020 still showing 2018 info on the website |
| Independence Day in Mali (1960) | orange-level tags |
| Baltic Unity Day in Latvia and Lithuania | stub |
| Car-Free Day in Europe and Montréal, Canada; | original research, refimprove |
| Bulgaria (1908) and | needs more footnotes |
| AD 66 – Emperor Nero established the Roman legion Legio I Italica. | one source, no footnotes |
| 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong killed Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of Tang dynasty China, after seizing control of the imperial government. | unreferenced section |
| 1499 – The Swabian War between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg came to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Basel. | lots of CN tags (18) |
| 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson killed actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel, for which he was indicted for manslaughter. | refimprove section |
| 1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States | Already featured on March 1 |
| 1776 – Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the Continental Army, was hanged by British forces. | refimprove section |
| 1792 – French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being. | unreferenced section |
| 1857 – Lefort, a Russian ship of the line, sank in the Gulf of Finland during a sudden squall with the loss of all 826 people on board. | stub |
| 1862 – U.S. president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1, 1863. | orange tagged |
| 1955 – ITV was founded as the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – The U.S. Congress authorized President John F. Kennedy's executive order to establish the Peace Corps. | unreferenced section |
| 1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War. | citations needed |
| 1980 – The Iraqi Air Force launched surprise airstrikes on ten Iranian airfields, starting the Iran–Iraq War. | Lots of tags |
| Ouyang Xiu |d|1072 | date not cited |
| Dōgen |d|1253 | refimprove section |
| Charlotte Cooper |b|1870 | unreferenced section |
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- 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.
- 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.
- 1914 – First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
- 1914 – World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia.
- 1922 – After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished , having caused at least ten thousand deaths.
- 1934 – One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.
- 1939 – A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.
- 1948 – Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
- 1975 – Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
- 1979 – An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1993 – A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.
- 1994 – The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
- 2014 – The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
- Born/died: | Selim I |d|1520| John Biddle |d|1662| Bernardino António Gomes Jr. |b|1806| Stephen D. Lee |b|1833| Wilhelm Keitel |b|1882| Norma McCorvey |b|1947| Ségolène Royal |b|1953|Gladys Berejiklian |b|1970| Aurelio López |d|1992| Edna Molewa |d|2018
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- Lynette Fromme appears on September 5, so Sara Jane Moore should not appear in the same year
- Soviet invasion of Poland appears on September 17, so German–Soviet military parade should not appear in the same year
François Duvalier
François Duvalier
- 1236 – Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
- 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
- 1957 – François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
- 2003 – Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
- 2013 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
- Ibn Khallikan (b. 1211)
- Louise McKinney (b. 1868)
- Ice Box Chamberlain (d. 1929)
- Florence Merriam Bailey (d. 1948)
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