Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 22
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September 22: September Equinox (21:18 UTC, 2009); Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908) and Mali (1960); Car-Free Day in Europe and Canada; OneWebDay
- 1792 – The epoch of the French Republican Calendar occurred, marking the first full day of the newly proclaimed French First Republic.
- 1827 – According to his own record of his early life, Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. obtained the golden plates, a set of engraved plates that he said was his source material for the Book of Mormon.
- 1862 – Slavery in the United States: President Abraham Lincoln (pictured) 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, was first performed in Munich.
- 1979 – The Vela Incident: An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.