Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 22
September 22: Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908) and Mali (1960); Car Free Day in Europe and Canada.
- 1776 – Captain Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary spy from the Continental Army, was hanged by British forces.
- 1792 – The epoch of the French Republican Calendar, marking the first day of the newly proclaimed French First Republic.
- 1862 – Slavery in the United States: President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory by January 1 1863.
- 1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by German composer Richard Wagner (pictured), was first performed in Munich.
- 1965 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War. The conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ended the following day.
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