On this day... September 22:

On this day...

September 22:  OneWebDay; Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908) andMali (1960); Day of Baltic Unity in Latvia and Lithuania 1586 – Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces were victorious against a combined Anglo-Dutch army in theBattle of Zutphen. 1792 – French Revolution: One day after the National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy, the French First Republic came into being. 1914 – World War I: German naval forces bombarded Papeete inFrench Polynesia. 1934 – One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales, killed 266 men. 1994 – The Nordhordland Bridge (pictured), which crossesSalhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, and is the second-longest bridge in Norway, was officially opened.