Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 22 [ talk · edit · history ] 1236 – Livonian Crusade : The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule . 1726 – Bach led the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich , BWV 17 , in Leipzig. 1979 – An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test . 1994 – The Nordhordland Bridge (pictured) , crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland , and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened. 2013 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa : All Saints Church in Peshawar , Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.

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