Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 22

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  Richard Wagner
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  Peace Corps logo
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  Abraham Lincoln
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  François Duvalier
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  Nordhordland Bridge
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  Gail Halvorsen

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
September equinox (Template:Nowrap, 2021);	refimprove section
OneWebDay;	maybe not a thing anymore; in 2020 still showing 2018 info on the website
Independence Day in Mali (1960)	orange-level tags
Baltic Unity Day in Latvia and Lithuania	stub
Car-Free Day in Europe and Montréal, Canada;	original research, refimprove
Bulgaria (1908) and	needs more footnotes
AD 66 – Emperor Nero established the Roman legion [[Legio I Italica|Template:Nowrap Italica]].	one source, no footnotes
904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong killed Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of Tang dynasty China, after seizing control of the imperial government.	unreferenced section
1359 – An Aragonese cavalry force defeated a superior Castilian cavalry force in the Battle of Araviana during the War of the Two Peters.	Date not cited
1499 – The Swabian War between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg came to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Basel.	lots of CN tags (18)
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson killed actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel, for which he was indicted for manslaughter.	refimprove section
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.	refimprove orange banner
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz were crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.	Date not cited
1776 – Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the Continental Army, was hanged by British forces.	refimprove section
1792 – French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being.	unreferenced section
1857 – Lefort, a Russian ship of the line, sank in the Gulf of Finland during a sudden squall with the loss of all 826 people on board.	stub
1862 – U.S. president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1, 1863.	orange tagged
1955 – ITV was founded as the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom.	refimprove section
1961 – The U.S. Congress authorized President John F. Kennedy's executive order to establish the Peace Corps.	unreferenced section
1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War.	citations needed
1980 – The Iraqi Air Force launched surprise airstrikes on ten Iranian airfields, starting the Iran–Iraq War.	Lots of tags
Ouyang Xiu |d|1072	date not cited
Dōgen |d|1253	refimprove section
Charlotte Cooper |b|1870	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1236 – Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
• 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
• 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.
• 1914 – First World War: The German submarine [[SM U-9|Template:Nowrap]] sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
• 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.
• 1948 – Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
• 1957 – François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
• 1979 – An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
• 1993 – A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., 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, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
• 2003 – Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
• 2013 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
• Born/died: | Ibn Khallikan |b|1211| Bernardino António Gomes Jr. |b|1806| Stephen D. Lee |b|1833| Louise McKinney |b|1868| Wilhelm Keitel |b|1882| Frank O'Connor |b|1897| Ice Box Chamberlain |d|1929| Norma McCorvey |b|1947| Florence Merriam Bailey |d|1948| Ségolène Royal |b|1953| Aurelio López |d|1992| Edna Molewa |d|2018|

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

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• 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.
• 1914 – World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia and sank a French gunboat.
• 1922 – After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished (aftermath pictured), having caused at least ten thousand deaths.
• 1975 – Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
• 2014 – The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.