September 22: Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); OneWebDay; Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908) and Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania
Damage from the Great Fire of Smyrna
- 1792 – French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being.
- 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1, 1863.
- 1922 – After nine days, the Great Fire of Smyrna was extinguished, having caused tens of thousands of deaths.
- 1955 – ITV was founded as the first commercial television network in the United Kingdom.
- 1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War.
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