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Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 22, the United States and five Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets.
Britain’s King George III and his wife, Charlotte, were crowned in Westminster Abbey.
During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Nathan Hale, was hanged as a spy by the British in New York.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free.
Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous “long-count” fight in Chicago.
Omar N. Bradley was promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite group that included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H. “Hap” Arnold.
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting racial discrimination on interstate buses.
Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed.
The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
People were killed when an Amtrak passenger train fell off a bridge and crashed into Big Bayou Canot near Mobile, Alabama. A tugboat pilot lost in fog pushed a barge into the railroad bridge, knocking the tracks inches out of line just minutes before the train arrived.
An AWACS plane carrying U.S. and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all people aboard. Sen. John McCain declared his opposition to the GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare,” the second time in three months McCain had emerged as the destroyer of his party’s signature promise to voters.
Ten years ago: American diplomats led a walkout at the U.N. General Assembly as Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd fiercely attacked the United States and major West European nations as “arrogant powers” ruled by greed and eager for military adventurism. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Germany on his first state visit to his homeland.
Five years ago: Prosecutors charged a white Oklahoma police officer with first-degree manslaughter less than a week after she killed an unarmed Black man on a city street, saying in court documents the officer “reacted unreasonably.” Betty Shelby was acquitted in May of manslaughter in the death of Terence Crutcher. It was disclosed that computer hackers had swiped personal information from at least a million Yahoo accounts in what was believed to have been the biggest digital break-in at an email provider.
One year ago: U.S. deaths from the coronavirus topped, by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world at that point, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University. The U.N. General Assembly convened for its first-ever virtual meeting, as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged nations to tackle the coronavirus and the “economic calamity” it had unleashed, as well as the risk of a new Cold War between the United States and China. A Louisiana state trooper, Chris Hollingsworth, died after a single-vehicle crash that took place hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man, Ronald Greene, following a high-speed chase. Overriding the mayor’s veto, Seattle’s City Council voted to reduce the police budget and reallocate some money to community programs. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from a Berlin hospital after more than a month’s treatment for poisoning. Navalny would be arrested and jailed upon his return to Russia.