Browsing: September 22

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 22nd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On September 22, 1692, eight people convicted of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials were executed by hanging. On September 22, 1692, eight women went on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft, an event we used as motivation for our article, “10 More Things History Got Wrong About Women (Part 2).” On September 22, 1948, USAF pilot Lt. Gail Halvorsen began dropping…

A Brief History On September 22, 1948, USAF pilot Lt. Gail Halvorsen began dropping candy via parachute to the children of Berlin.  In 1948, the USSR tried to cut off West Berlin from supplies from the West, starving the population. Digging Deeper The US and its allies began an operation dubbed “The Berlin Airlift,” flying supplies of food, fuel, medicine, and other essentials to West Berlin surrounded by the Soviets and their East German lackeys. Halvorsen was one of those pilots of cargo planes, and when he noticed hungry faces of children lined up by the West Berlin airport, he…

A Brief History On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded their neighbor, Iran, seeking to take advantage of the disruption caused by the Iranian revolution.  The resulting war lasted 8 years and cost each country around a half million people each, with no change in territory and no clear winner. Digging Deeper Today, we ask you, “What was the most miscalculated invasion in history?” and we give some examples to choose from, although you can name your own: US Invasions of Canada, 1775 and 1812 French Invasion of Russia, 1812 French Invasion of Germany/Prussia, 1870 Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939 German…

A Brief History On September 22, 1965, the Indo-Pakistani War over the disputed region of Kashmir came to an end.  The war had raged for about a month, resulting in a few thousand deaths on each side, along with the loss of a few hundred tanks and dozens of aircraft, a fairly substantial list of losses for a relatively short war.  The region of Kashmir, located at the Northernmost part of the Indian sub-continent, is both occupied and disputed between China, Pakistan and India.  The region of rugged terrain is the home to pashmina goats that provide the fine wool…

A Brief History On September 22, 1995, a United States Air Force Boeing E-3B Sentry (AWACS, early warning spy in the sky type aircraft) flew into a flock of birds immediately after taking off from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, putting two of the four jet engines out of commission and causing a crash of the big plane, killing all 24 crewmen aboard.  Developed from the Boeing 707 jetliner, the E-3 is a large airplane, but not so large it could not be downed by birds.  Birds pose a danger to airplanes of all sizes and types and can…