Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 22 throughout history.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who has served as the president of Sri Lanka since 2024. Dissanayake is the first Sr…
Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
On 22 September 2013, a twin suicide bombing took place at All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, in which 127 people were killed and more than 250 injured. It was the deadliest…
At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Maglev is a system of rail transport whose rolling stock is levitated by magnets rather than rolled on wheels.
Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
The Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident was the September 22, 1995 crash of a United States Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft with the loss of all 24 crewm…
An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines…
The Nagarkovil school bombing was an airstrike on 22 September 1995 in which the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed the Nagarkovil Maha Vidyalayam school in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka,…
The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic…
The Big Bayou Canot rail accident was the derailment of the Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge in Mobile County, Alabama near M…
A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history.…
From 20 to 23 September 1993, during the Sukhumi massacre, separatists in Sukhumi, Abkhazia blocked Georgian troops' overland supply routes as part of the war in Abkhazia. In resp…
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), which mostly consist of the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish biblical manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered …
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
A military exercise, training exercise, maneuver, manoeuvre, drill or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations. Military exercises are …
During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing…
The Iraqi invasion of Iran began on 22 September 1980, sparking the Iran–Iraq War, and lasted until 5 December 1980. Ba'athist Iraq believed that Iran would not respond effectivel…
Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
The Vela incident was an atmospheric nuclear explosion that occurred on 22 September 1979, near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly m…
A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause…
Scarlet GN, or C.I. Food Red 2, FD&C Red No. 4, or C.I. 14815 is a red azo dye once used as a food dye. As a food additive, it has the E number E125. It is usually used as a disod…
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the…
Sara Jane Moore was an American accountant and FBI informant who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975.
Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashed near Winton in Queensland, Australia on 22 September 1966, killing all on board. The Vickers Viscount aircraft departed from Mount Isa, Queensland, A…
Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.
The India–Pakistan war of 1965, also known as the second Kashmir war, was an armed conflict between Pakistan and India that took place from August 1965 to September 1965.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a…
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa and the 23rd largest country in the world, with an area o…
The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It occu…
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
The Four Level Interchange is the first stack interchange in the world. Completed in 1949 and fully opened in 1953 at the northern edge of Downtown Los Angeles, California, United…
The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.
Colonel Gail Seymour Halvorsen was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He rose to fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airli…
Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key asp…
Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.