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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Images

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  Richard Wagner
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  Peace Corps logo
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  Abraham Lincoln
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  François "Papa Doc" Duvalier
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  Nordhordland Bridge

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Car-Free Day in Europe and Montréal, Canada;	original research, refimprove
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 has refimprove section; Der Ring has unreferenced section
1979 – An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.	page numbers missing
1980 – The Iraqi Air Force launched surprise airstrikes on ten Iranian airfields, starting the Iran–Iraq War.	too long

Eligible

• 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong killed Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of Tang dynasty China, after seizing control of the imperial government.
• 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces were victorious against a combined Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Zutphen.
• 1776 – Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the Continental Army, was hanged by British forces.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1957 – François "Papa Doc" Duvalier was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
• 1961 – The U.S. Congress authorized President John F. Kennedy's executive order to establish the Peace Corps.
• 1975 – Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
• 1993 – A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, US, 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 (pictured), which crosses Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, and is the second-longest bridge in Norway, was officially opened.

Notes

• 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

September 22: Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); OneWebDay; Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908) and Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania

Damage from the Great Fire of Smyrna

• 1792 – French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being.
• 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1, 1863.
• 1922 – After nine days, the Great Fire of Smyrna was extinguished, having caused tens of thousands of deaths.
• 1955 – ITV was founded as the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom.
• 1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War.

More anniversaries:

• September 21
• September 22
• September 23