September 22: Independence Day in Mali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania
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François "Papa Doc" Duvalier
- 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces were victorious against a combined Anglo-Dutch army in the Battle of Zutphen.
- 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 tens of thousands of deaths.
- 1957 – François "Papa Doc" Duvalier (pictured) was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
- 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.
Ouyang Xiu (d. 1072) · Charlotte Cooper (b. 1870) · Ségolène Royal (b. 1953)
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