WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. SEPTEMBER
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Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history. (22. September 1896)

The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed. (22. September 1908)

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. (22. September 1910)

German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men. (22. September 1914)

The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. (22. September 1919)

Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney. (22. September 1927)

An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. (22. September 1934)

Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco. (22. September 1937)

Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland. (22. September 1939)

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. (22. September 1941)

In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time. (22. September 1955)

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. (22. September 1957)

The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. (22. September 1960)

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. (22. September 1965)

Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple. (22. September 1975)

The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test. (22. September 1979)

Iraq invades Iran. (22. September 1980)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library. (22. September 1991)

A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed. (22. September 1993)

A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. (22. September 1993)