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22 September 2026

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Holidays today

No listed public holiday today for India.

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Observances today

No UN observance in the current list falls on today.

Selected anniversaries

Anniversary

2014 - The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.

Anniversary

2013 - Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.

Anniversary

2003 - Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.

On this day in history

History

2024 - Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.

History

2013 - At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

History

2006 - Twenty-three people were killed in a maglev train collision in Lathen, Germany.

History

1995 - 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.

History

1995 - 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.