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SEPTEMBER 22, 1922
After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished , having caused at least ten thousand deaths.
The burning of Smyrna destroyed much of the port city of Smyrna in September 1922. Eyewitness reports state that the fire began Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1236
Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
The Livonian crusade consists of the various military Christianisation campaigns in medieval Livonia – modern Latvia and Estonia – during the Papal-sanctioned Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
The insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, also known as the War in North-West Pakistan or Pakistan's war on terror, is an ongoing armed Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1914
World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 2003
Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
Dolphin is a free and open-source video game console emulator of GameCube and Wii that runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Xbox Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 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.
The German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk was an official ceremony held by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1586
Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1914
First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1994
The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
The Nordhordland Bridge is a combined cable-stayed and pontoon bridge which crosses Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and the island of Flatøy in Vestland Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 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.
Vela was the name of a group of reconnaissance satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1934
One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.
The Gresford disaster occurred on 22 September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham, when an explosion and underground fire killed 261 men. Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 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.
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician and voodooist who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 1948
Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
Colonel Gail Seymour Halvorsen was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He rose to fame for Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 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.
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Read More
SEPTEMBER 22, 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.
A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a Read More

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