About September 22
September 22, 2021 is the 265th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 132 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 22: More About This Day
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
What Happened On September 22
- 66 –Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
- 1236 –The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1586 –Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
- 1789 –Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1789 –The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1792 –Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1823 –Joseph Smith, Jr. 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.
- 1896 –Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1910 –The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 cease-fire.
- 1979 –The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 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.
- 2011 –CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
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