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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 hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.
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 by British Troops 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 – Following the bloody Battle of Antietam, Republican President Abraham Lincoln released a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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 HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy 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.
1920 – A Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series.
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 Vinnytsya, 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.
1961: President John F. Kennedy signs a congressional act that establishes the Peace Corps. He first proposed the idea on October 14, 1960, when he addressed more than 5,000 students at the University of Michigan in an unprepared campaign speech, and challenged them to serve their country and promote the cause of peace by working in developing countries around the world. WhatWasThere.com
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 Sri Lankan 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.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Thomas of Villanueve, Archbishop of Valencia, Confessor Double
Comemoration of St. Maurice and his Companions, Martyrs
Comemoration of St. Maurice and his Companions, Martyrs
Contemporary Western
Candidus
Digna and Emerita
Emmeram of Regensburg
Maurice
Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)
Phocas
Sadalberga
Theban Legion
Thomas of Villanova
Digna and Emerita
Emmeram of Regensburg
Maurice
Paul Chong Hasang (one of The Korean Martyrs)
Phocas
Sadalberga
Theban Legion
Thomas of Villanova
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Prophet Jonah (8th century B.C.)
Martyr Thomas, abbot, and 26 martyr-monks: Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah,
Simon, Hilarion, James, Job, Cyprian, Sabbas, James, Martinian, Cosmas,
Sergius, Paul, Menas, Ioasaph, Ioanicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian,
Partenius, and others of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos,
martyred by the Latins (Roman Catholic Crusaders) (1284)
Hieromartyr Phoca, Bishop of Sinope (102)
Martyr Phocas the Gardener, of Sinope (303)
Venerable Jonah the Presbyter, father of Saint Theophanes the Hymnographer
and Saint Theodore Graptus (9th century)
Saint Peter the Tax Collector (6th century)
Saint Jonah, abbot of Yashezersk (1592)
Saint Cosmas of Zograf Monastery (1323)
Martyrs Isaac and Martin
Saint Macarius, abbot of Zhabyn (Belev) (1623)
Saint Theophanes the Silent, recluse of the Kiev Caves
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “She Who Is Quick to Hear”
Repose of Abbot Innocent of Valaam (1828)
Repose of Blessed Parasceva ("Pasha of Sarov"), Fool-for-Christ of Diveyevo Convent (1915)
Prophet Jonah (8th century B.C.)
Martyr Thomas, abbot, and 26 martyr-monks: Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah,
Simon, Hilarion, James, Job, Cyprian, Sabbas, James, Martinian, Cosmas,
Sergius, Paul, Menas, Ioasaph, Ioanicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian,
Partenius, and others of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos,
martyred by the Latins (Roman Catholic Crusaders) (1284)
Hieromartyr Phoca, Bishop of Sinope (102)
Martyr Phocas the Gardener, of Sinope (303)
Venerable Jonah the Presbyter, father of Saint Theophanes the Hymnographer
and Saint Theodore Graptus (9th century)
Saint Peter the Tax Collector (6th century)
Saint Jonah, abbot of Yashezersk (1592)
Saint Cosmas of Zograf Monastery (1323)
Martyrs Isaac and Martin
Saint Macarius, abbot of Zhabyn (Belev) (1623)
Saint Theophanes the Silent, recluse of the Kiev Caves
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “She Who Is Quick to Hear”
Repose of Abbot Innocent of Valaam (1828)
Repose of Blessed Parasceva ("Pasha of Sarov"), Fool-for-Christ of Diveyevo Convent (1915)
Coptic Orthodox
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