On This Day — September 22

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on September 22.

• 2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
• 2013: At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
• 2006: Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.
• 1995: An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
• 1995: The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.

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