September 23
is the 266th day of the year (267th in
leap years). There are 99 days remaining.
*
1122 -
Concordat of Worms*
1459 -
Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the
English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in
Staffordshire.
*
1529 - The
Siege of Vienna begins as
Suleiman I begins his attack on the city.
*
1642 - First commencement exercises occur at
Harvard College.
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1779 -
American Revolution;
USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by
John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war
Serapis and
Countess of Scarborough off the coast of
England.
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1780 -
American Revolution;
British Major
John Andre arrested as a spy by
American soldiers exposing
Benedict Arnold's treason.
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1803 -
Second Anglo-Maratha War:
Battle of Assaye*
1806 -
Lewis and Clark return, after exploring the
Pacific Northwest of the
United States.
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1818 - Border demarcation markers for
Moresnet formally installed.
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1845 - The
Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first
baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in
New York.
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1846 - Discovery of
Neptune by French astronomer
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer
John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer
Johann Gottfried Galle*
1848 - First commercial production of
chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.
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1868 -
Grito de Lares (Lares Revolt) occurs in
Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
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1875 -
William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time.
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1884 -
Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
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1889 -
Nintendo Koppai (Later
Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by
Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game
Hanafuda.
*
1905 -
Norway and
Sweden sign the "
Karlstad treaty", officially ending the
Union between the two countries peacfully.
*
1912 - First
Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" is released.
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1922 -
Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the
Polish parliament.
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1932 - The Kingdom of
Hejaz and
Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia*
1941 - The first gas experiments are conducted at
Auschwitz.
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1952 -
Rocky Marciano knocked Jersey Joe Walcott out in the thirteenth round, becoming the new Heavyweight Champion.
*
1952 -
Richard Nixon makes his "
Checkers speech".
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1957 - Hank Aaron of the MLB gives the
Milwaukee Braves the pennant with a home run.
*
1962 - The
Jetsons aired for the first time.
* 1962 -
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in
New York City opens with the first building completed, Philharmonic Hall, now
Avery Fisher Hall home of the
New York Philharmonic.
*
1969 - The
Chicago 8 trial opens in
Chicago, Illinois*
1973 -
Juan Perón returns to power in
Argentina.
*
1980 -
Bob Marley's last concert
* 1980 - The premiere of
Brian Friel's play
Translations in
Derry,
Northern Ireland.
*
1981 -
Jack Henry Abbott, best-selling author, is arrested for murder.
*
1983 -
Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the
United Nations.
* 1983 -
Gerrie Coetzee of
South Africa becomes the first
African
boxing world heavyweight champion.
*
1999 -
NASA announces that it lost contact with the
Mars Climate Orbiter.
*
1999 -
Qantas Flight 1 overruns wet runway in
Bangkok, while some passengers only received minor injuries, it was still the worst crash in
Qantas history to date.
*
2002 -
Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix) web browser is born: version 0.1.
*
2004 - At least 1,070 in
Haiti reported killed by
floods due to
Hurricane Jeanne.
*
2005 -
FBI killing of
Filiberto Ojeda on
Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
*
480 BC -
Euripides, Greek playwright (d.
406 BC)
*
63 BC -
Augustus Caesar,
Roman Emperor (d.
14)
*
1158 -
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d.
1186)
*
1161 -
Emperor Takakura of Japan (d.
1181)
*
1215 -
Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d.
1294)
*
1598 -
Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1655)
*
1647 -
Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d.
1720)
*
1650 -
Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d.
1726)
*
1713 - King
Ferdinand VI of Spain (d.
1759)
*
1740 -
Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d.
1813)
*
1771 -
Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d.
1840)
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1791 -
Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d.
1865)
*
1819 -
Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d.
1896)
*
1838 -
Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d.
1927)
*
1852 -
William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d.
1922)
*
1863 -
Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d.
1954)
*
1864 -
Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d.
1903)
*
1865 -
Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d.
1947)
*
1880 -
John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1971)
*
1889 -
Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d.
1974)
*
1890 -
Friedrich Paulus, German general (d.
1957)
*
1895 -
Johnny Mokan, baseball player (d.
1985)
*
1897 -
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d.
1984)
*
1900 -
Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d.
1988)
*
1901 -
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1986)
*
1911 -
Frank Moss,
United States Senator from Utah (d.
2003)
*
1915 -
Clifford Shull, American physicist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
2001)
*
1916 -
Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d.
1978)
*
1920 -
Mickey Rooney, American actor
*
1923 -
Timber Wolf, Chinese-Vietnamese revolutionary
*
1924 -
Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d.
1978)
*
1926 -
John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d.
1967)
*
1930 -
Ray Charles, American musician (d.
2004)
*
1931 -
Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d.
2004)
*
1936 -
Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
*
1938 -
Tom Lester, American actor
* 1938 -
Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d.
1982)
*
1939 -
Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d.
1988)
* 1939 -
Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
*
1942 -
Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
*
1943 -
Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
* 1943 -
Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
*
1945 -
Paul Petersen, American actor
*
1946 -
Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
*
1947 -
Mary Kay Place, American actress
*
1949 -
Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
*
1954 -
Charlie Barnett, American actor (d.
1996)
*
1956 -
Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
*
1956 -
Peter David, American writer
*
1957 -
Tony Fossas, baseball player
*
1958 -
Marvin Lewis, American football coach
*
1959 -
Jason Alexander, American actor
* 1959 -
Elizabeth Peña, American actress
*
1960 -
Jason Carter, British actor
*
1961 -
Willie McCool, American astronaut (d.
2003)
*
1964 -
Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (
B'z)
*
1966 -
LisaRaye, American actress
*
1969 -
Michelle Thomas, American actress (d.
1998)
* 1969 -
Patrick Fiori, French singer
* 1969 -
Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
*
1970 -
Ani DiFranco, American musician
*
1972 -
Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
*
1974 -
Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
* 1974 -
Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
*
1975 -
Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
* 1975 -
Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
*
1979 -
Ricky Davis, American basketball player
*
1981 -
Natalie Horler, singer
*
1984 -
Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
*
1985 -
Maki Goto, Japanese pop idol
* 1985 -
Brian Brohm, American football player
*
79 -
Pope Linus*
1241 -
Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b.
1178)
*
1390 -
John I, Duke of Lorraine (b.
1346)
*
1535 -
Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of
Gustav I of Sweden (b.
1513)
*
1571 -
John Jewel, English bishop (b.
1522)
*
1573 -
Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b.
1524)
*
1605 -
Pontus de Tyard, French poet
*
1675 -
Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b.
1603)
*
1728 -
Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b.
1655)
*
1738 -
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b.
1668)
*
1764 -
Robert Dodsley, English writer (b.
1703)
*
1773 -
Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b.
1718)
*
1789 -
John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b.
1723)
*
1835 -
Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b.
1801)
*
1844 -
Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b.
1783)
*
1846 -
John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b.
1818)
*
1850 -
José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero (b.
1764)
*
1870 -
Prosper Mérimée, French author (b.
1803)
*
1873 -
Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b.
1823)
*
1889 -
Wilkie Collins, British author (b.
1824)
*
1900 -
William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b.
1816)
*
1917 -
Werner Voss German World War I pilot (b.
1897)
*
1929 -
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1865)
*
1939 -
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b.
1856)
*
1943 -
Elinor Glyn, English author (b.
1864)
*
1950 -
Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b.
1892)
*
1968 -
Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b.
1887)
*
1971 -
Billy Gilbert, American actor (b.
1894)
*
1973 -
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1904)
*
1974 -
Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (b.
1905)
*
1978 -
Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (murdered) (b.
1950)
*
1981 -
Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b.
1899)
*
1987 -
Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (b.
1927)
*
1988 -
Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b.
1912)
*
1992 -
James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (b.
1892)
*
1994 -
Robert Bloch, American author (b.
1917)
*
1998 -
Mary Frann, American actress (b.
1943)
*
2000 -
Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican
Major League Baseball player (b.
1947)
* 2000 -
Carl Rowan, American journalist (b.
1925)
*
2002 -
Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b.
1927)
*
2003 -
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (b.
1937)
*
2004 -
André Hazes, Dutch singer (b.
1951)
*
2005 -
Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b.
1933)
*
Astrology: Usually the first day of sun sign
Libra in the tropical
zodiac.
*In ancient
Latvia, the second day of
Mikeli*
RC Saints -
Feast day of
Saint Adomnan of
Iona,
Saint Constantius,
Saint Thecla.
*Also see
September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*Traditional
New Year's Day in Constantinople and Eastern Orthodox churches " because of the birthday of August, not because of the equinox.
*
Celebrate Bisexuality Day - September 23rd of every year is designated as
Celebrate Bisexuality Day and celebrated by members of the
bisexual community and their allies worldwide. Observed annually since
1999.
*
Japanese Autumnal equinox Day (秋分の日/Shūbun no hi)
*
Saudi Arabia -
National Day (unification
1932)
*
French Republican Calendar -
Safran (Saffron) Day, second day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
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