Historical Events In September - 22

1980  The war between Iran and Iraq begins on this day in history.  

1980  On this day in history uSS Eisenhower and Midway continued contingency operations in the northern Arabian Sea as war erupted between Iraq and Iran.  

1983  NASA launches Galaxy-B on this day in history.  

1983  On this day in history zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"  

1985  On September - 22 michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ  

1985  On this day in history rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill  

1985  Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1987  Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

1988  South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in on September - 22.  

1989  On this day in history after Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October.  

1989  Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101 on this day in history.  

1990  On this day in history saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys  

1991  Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public on September - 22.  

1991  Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies on September - 22.  

1993  Margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89 on September - 22.  

1994  Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79 on September - 22.  

1995  Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89 on September - 22.  

1996  On this day in history dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81  

1997  Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

2006  On September - 22 a Transrapid Maglev train crashes into a maintenance vehicle on a test track in Germany, killing 23 and injuring 10; it is the first recorded fatal accident involving a Maglev.  

2012  7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow on September - 22.  

2013  On September - 22 78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan  

2014  On September - 22 nASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars  

2017  US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend on this day in history.  

2018  Singer Rihanna is appointed as an ambassador for Barbados on this day in history.  

2018  On September - 22 four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians  

2018  On September - 22 an attack at a military parade kills at least 29 people in Ahvaz, Iran.  

2019  On this day in history 71st Emmy Awards: "Fleabag", " Game of Thrones ", "Chernobyl", Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jharrel Jerome win  

2019  "Howdy, Modi!" US President Donald Trump holds a mass rally for Indian PM Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas on September - 22.  

2019  On this day in history nearly three weeks after Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas, the official death toll stands at 52 and 1,300 are reported missing. Rescuers report the widespread stench of rotting bodies in the rubble.  

2020  PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a 'perilous turning point' in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions on this day in history.  

2020  President Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060 on September - 22.  

2023  On this day in history uS President Joe Biden announces a military aid package for Ukraine while meeting with the country's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House [1]  

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1290  On this day in history birth of bilbo Baggins, (in Shire Reconning)  

1515  On this day in history birth of anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII  

1547  On this day in history birth of philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)  

1601  Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III was born on this day in history.  

1606  On this day in history birth of li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)  

1680  Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747) was born on this day in history.  

1694  Lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) was born on this day in history.  

1715  On September - 22 birth of jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)  

1072  On this day in history death of ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)  

1197  Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies on this day in history.  

1253  On this day in history dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53  

1286  On September - 22 mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60  

1345  On September - 22 death of henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)  

1392  On September - 22 death of aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22  

1399  Death of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366) on this day in history.  

1408  Johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies on this day in history.