On This Day: September 22nd

Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.

At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.

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.

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.

A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.

A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.

During a military exercise, a Turkish Air Force Northrop F-5 crashes in Babaeski as a result of pilot error, killing one crew member and also 65 soldiers on the ground.

Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.