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It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. ==Events== *480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I. * 904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. *1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule. *1499 – Treaty of Basel *1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch. *1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter. *1692 – The last people are hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies. *1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina. *1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain. *1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution. *1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established. * 1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces. *1792 – ''Primidi Vendémiaire'' of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being. *1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried. *1857 – The Russian warship ''Lefort'' capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. *1862 – Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released. *1866 – Battle of Curupayty in the Paraguayan War. *1869 – Richard Wagner's opera ''Das Rheingold'' premieres in Munich. *1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule. *1888 – The first issue of ''National Geographic Magazine'' is published. *1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. *1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed. *1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. *1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers , and on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men. *1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. *1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. *1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. *1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco. *1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland. *1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. *1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time. *1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. *1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. *1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a ceasefire. *1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple. *1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test. *1980 – Iraq invades Iran. *1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. *1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed. * 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. *1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed. * 1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children. *2013 – At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「September 22」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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