Historical Events In September - 22

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

1980  On September - 22 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  Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" on this day in history.  

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

1985  Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill on September - 22.  

1985  Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73 on September - 22.  

1987  On this day in history christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27  

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

1989  After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October on September - 22.  

1989  On this day in history irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101  

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

1991  Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public on this day in history.  

1991  On September - 22 pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies  

1993  On September - 22 margaret MacDonald, maid to Queen Elizabeth, dies at 89  

1994  Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1995  On September - 22 albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89  

1996  On September - 22 dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81  

1997  On September - 22 bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76  

2006  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 on this day in history.  

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

2013  78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on this day in history.  

2014  NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars on September - 22.  

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  On September - 22 singer Rihanna is appointed as an ambassador for Barbados  

2018  On this day in history four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians  

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

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

2019  On this day in history "Howdy, Modi!" US President Donald Trump holds a mass rally for Indian PM Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas  

2019  On September - 22 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  On this day in history president Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060  

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

1515  Anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII was born on September - 22.  

1547  Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590) was born on September - 22.  

1601  Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III was born on September - 22.  

1606  Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645) was born on September - 22.  

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

1694  On this day in history birth of lord Chesterfield, letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752)  

1715  Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786) was born on this day in history.  

1072  Death of Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007) on this day in history.  

1197  On this day in history petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies  

1253  On September - 22 dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53  

1286  Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1345  Death of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281) on this day in history.  

1392  On this day in history 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  On this day in history johannes VII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1376-77, 90/1404-8), dies