Also on September 22
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: 国民の休日 (JP)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilāni ق major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2013 — At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan. ↗
- 1995 — An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after... ↗
- 1995 — Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren. ↗
- 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. ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1994 — Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1992 — Philip Hindes, English track cyclist
- 1991 — Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1991 — Joe Wardle, English rugby league player
- 1990 — Denard Robinson, American football player