Historical Events In September - 22

1980  On this day in history the war between Iran and Iraq begins   

1980  USS Eisenhower and Midway continued contingency operations in the northern Arabian Sea as war erupted between Iraq and Iran on September - 22.   

1983  NASA launches Galaxy-B on September - 22.   

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

1985  On this day in history 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  On this day in history axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73   

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

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

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  Saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys on this day in history.   

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  On September - 22 forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79   

1995  Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1996  Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76   

2006  On this day in history 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  NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars on September - 22.   

2017  On September - 22 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   

2018  Singer Rihanna is appointed as an ambassador for Barbados on September - 22.   

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

2018  On this day in history an attack at a military parade kills at least 29 people in Ahvaz, Iran.   

2019  On September - 22 71st Emmy Awards: "Fleabag", " Game of Thrones ", "Chernobyl", Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jharrel Jerome win   

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

2019  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 on September - 22.   

2020  PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a 'perilous turning point' in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions on September - 22.   

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 September - 22 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  Bilbo Baggins, (in Shire Reconning) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 September - 22.   

1606  On September - 22 birth of li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)   

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  Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies on September - 22.   

1253  Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

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

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

1392  On this day in history death of aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22   

1399  On September - 22 death of thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)   

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