Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 22

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 * 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.
 * 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.
 * 1914 – First World War: The German submarine U-9 sank three Royal Navy cruisers, resulting in approximately 1,450 deaths.
 * 1914 – World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete in French Polynesia.
 * 1922 – After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished, having caused at least ten thousand deaths.
 * 1934 – One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.
 * 1939 – A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.
 * 1948 – Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
 * 1975 – Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
 * 1979 – An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
 * 1993 – A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.
 * 1994 – The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
 * 2014 – The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
 * Born/died: | Selim I |d|1520| John Biddle |d|1662| Bernardino António Gomes Jr. |b|1806| Stephen D. Lee |b|1833| Wilhelm Keitel |b|1882| Norma McCorvey |b|1947| Ségolène Royal |b|1953|Gladys Berejiklian |b|1970| Aurelio López |d|1992| Edna Molewa |d|2018