Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 22
This is a list of selected September 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Car-Free Day in Europe and Montréal, Canada; | original research, refimprove |
| OneWebDay | stub |
| 66 – Emperor Nero established the Roman legion Legio I Italica. | one source, no footnotes |
| 1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States | Already featured on March 1 |
| 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in Munich. | Das Rheingold needs more footnotes, Der Ring has refimprove & unreferenced sections |
| 1980 – The Iraqi Air Force launched surprise airstrikes on ten Iranian airfields, starting the Iran–Iraq War. | cleanup section |
Eligible
- 1776 – Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the Continental Army, was hanged by British forces.
- 1862 – Slavery in the United States: President Abraham Lincoln (pictured) issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1, 1863.
- 1934 – One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an 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.
- 1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War.
- 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, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
September 22: Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908) and Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania
- 1792 – French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being.
- 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 tens of thousands of deaths.
- 1961 – The U.S. Congress authorized President John F. Kennedy's executive order to establish the Peace Corps (logo pictured).
- 1994 – The Nordhordland Bridge, which crosses Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, and is the second-longest bridge in Norway, was officially opened.