📜 This Day in History
September 22
1236Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.- 1869Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by the German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in Munich.
- 1934One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.
- 1957François Duvalier, nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
- 1994The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
- 2014The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
