22nd September
1980: Iran-Iraq War
Long-standing border disputes and political turmoil in Iran prompt Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to launch an invasion of Iran’s oil-producing province of Khuzestan. After initial advances, the Iraqi offence was repulsed. In 1982, Iraq voluntarily withdrew and sought a peace agreement, but the Ayatollah Khomeini renewed fighting. Stalemates and the deaths of thousands of young Iranian conscripts in Iraq followed. Population centres in both countries were bombed, and Iraq employed the use of chemical weapons. In the Persian Gulf, a tanker war curtailed shipping and increased oil prices. In 1988, Iran agreed to a cease-fire.
2001
The British journalist John Simpson smuggles himself intoAfghanistan and is the only journalist broadcasting from the country prior the American led attack to depose the Talibanregime.1998
Thousands of civilians flee the fighting in Kosovo as Serbian troops resume their fight against the Kosovo Liberation Army.1993
In America, 43 people are killed when an Amtrak derails inAlabama.1989
In England, an IRA bomb attack kills 11 soldiers at the Royal Marine School of Music at Deal in Kent.1975
U.S. President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt when he is shot at by Sarah Jane Moore. Ford had already survived one attempt on his life that month when Lynette Fromme also tried to kill him.1975
The fragile ceasefire agreement in Northern Ireland is spectacularly blown apart when the Provisional IRA explode a series of bombs throughout the country.1965
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War. The fighting stops the next day.1960
Mali gains independence from France.1955
Commercial television starts broadcasting in Britain for the first time.1927
In America, Boxer Gene Tuney beats Jack Dempsey to become world heavyweight champion.1914
The First World War: In the North Sea, the German U-9 submarine sinks three British cruisers, the Aboukir, the Hogue, and the Cressy, killing a total of 1,400 British sailors.1862
Abraham Lincoln makes his initial emancipation proclamation,abolishing slavery and ordering that all slaves should be free from 1st January 1863.1828
Shaka, founder of the Zulu Kingdom of southern Africa, is murdered by his two half-brothers, Dingane and Mhlangana, after Shaka’s mental illness threatened to destroy the Zulu tribe.1792
French Revolution: The proclamation of France as a Republic.1776
In New York City, Nathan Hale, a schoolteacher and captain in the Continental Army, is executed by the British for spying.1988
everyone carried on with their daily chores........
