September 22 in history — What Happened Today in History

Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.

Twenty-four people are killed when Ansett-ANA Flight 149 crashes in Winton, Queensland, Australia.

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire and after a last engagement near Dograi.

The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.

The Four Level Interchange, first stack interchange in the world opened in Los Angeles.

Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.

Israeli-Palestine conflict: The All-Palestine Government is established by the Arab League.

The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 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.

World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.

The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.

The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1,500 sailors.

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history (later surpassed by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II on 9 September 2015).

A locomotive shunting falls into a hole in the ground, leading to the burial of the locomotive.

The first hydropower plant of Finland is commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.

Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.

The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.

The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.

Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.

Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.

The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.

Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.

George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.

Alexander Wennberg, Swedish ice hockey player

Philip Hindes, English track cyclist

Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player

Denard Robinson, American football player

Jon Bass, American actor

Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress

Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player

Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model

Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player

Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist

Tom Felton, English actor

Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer

Teyonah Parris, American actress

Sahana Pradhan, Nepalese politician, Nepalese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1927)

Erik van der Wurff, Dutch pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1945)

Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (born 1936)

Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (born 1930)

Jane Connell, American actress and singer (born 1925)

David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)

Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)

Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926)

Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and academic (born 1919)

Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (born 1913)

Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican businessman and politician, 126th Mayor of Ponce (born 1919)

Grigory Frid, Russian pianist and composer (born 1915)