September 23
September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years ). There are 99 days remaining. Also an important date in pagan history celebrating fall.
Events
490 BC - Battle of Marathon ; origin of marathon long-distance race (run by Phidippides )
1122 - Concordat of Worms
1459 - The Battle of Blore Heath . The first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses , fought at Blore Heath, in Staffordshire , England
1529 - Siege of Vienna begins as Suleiman II begins his attack on the city.
1642 - First commencement exercises occur at Harvard University .
1779 - USS Bonhomme Richard John Paul Jones , wins a fight against the British ships of war Serapis Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England
1780 - British Major John Andre arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold 's treason
1803 - Battle of Assaye
1806 - Lewis and Clark return, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
1845 - The Knickerbocker Baseball Club , the first professional baseball team, is founded in New York .
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
1868 - Grito de Lares (Lares Revolt) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1875 - William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time.
1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1912 - First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" is released.
1922 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1941 - First gas experiments at Auschwitz
1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers" speech
1962 - The Jetsons aired for the first time.
1969 - The Chicago 8 trial opens in Chicago
1973 - Juan Peron returns to power in Argentina
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 boxing world heavyweight champion ever to come from Africa when he knocks out defending WBA champion Michael Dokes in Akron, Ohio .
1993 - Sonic the Hedgehog CD is released for the Sega Mega-CD in Japan .
1999 - NASA announces that it lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter .
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 .
Births
480 BC - Euripides , playwright (d. 406 BC )
63 BC - Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar
AD 1158 - Geoffrey Plantagenet , Duke of Brittany
1650 - Jeremy Collier , English bishop (d. 1726 )
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain
1800 - William McGuffy , educator (McGuffy's Readers )
1838 - Victoria Woodhull , suffragist (d. 1927 )
1852 - William Stewart Halsted , surgeon (d. 1922 )
1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell , U.S. writer, social reformer (d. 1954 )
1865 - Baroness Emmuska Orczy , novelist (d. 1947 )
1889 - Walter Lippmann , journalist
1890 - Friedrich Paulus , German General (d. 1957 )
1895 - Johnny Mokan , basball player (d. 1985 )
1897 - Walter Pidgeon , actor (d. 1984 )
1899 - Louise Nevelson , artist
1911 - Frank Moss , U.S. Senator Utah
1916 - Aldo Moro , Italian politician (d. 1978 )
1920 - Mickey Rooney , actor
1926 - John Coltrane , saxophonist, composer (d. 1967 )
1930 - Ray Charles , U.S. R&B and jazz musician, singer (d. 2004 )
1931 :
1938 - Romy Schneider , actress (d. 1982 )
1939 :
1942 - Sila María Calderón , Governor of Puerto Rico
1943 - Julio Iglesias , singer
1945 - Paul Petersen , actor
1946 - Franz Fischler , politician
1947 - Mary Kay Place , actor
1949 - Bruce Springsteen , singer, songwriter
1958 - Marvin Lewis , American football coach
1959 :
1964 - Koshi Inaba , Japanese singer(B'z )
1970 - Ani DiFranco , musician
1974 - Harumi Inoue , Japanese actress, model, pop idol
1974 - Matt Hardy , professional wrestler
1975 - Jaime Bergman , American model and actress
1984 - Anneliese van der Pol , actress
1997 - Ahmed Bashein , athlete
Deaths
76 - Pope Linus
918 - King Conrad I of Germany
1241 - Snorri Sturluson , Icelandic historian, poet, and politician
1253 - (or September 22 ) King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
1573 - Azai Hisamasa , Japanese warlord (b. 1524 )
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini , Italian composer (b. 1801 )
1870 - Prosper Mérimée , French author (b. 1803 )
1873 - Jean Chacornac , French astronomer (b. 1823 )
1889 - Wilkie Collins , author
1900 - William Marsh Rice , philanthropist, university founder
1917 - Werner Voss German World War I flying ace (b. 1897 )
1939 - Sigmund Freud , Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
1943 - Elinor Glyn , English author (b. 1864)
1950 - Sam Barry , Hall of Fame basketball coach
1973 - Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet (b. 1904 )
1974 - Cliff Arquette , comedian, actor
1978 - Lyman Bostock , Major League Baseball player, murdered (b. 1950 )
1987 - Bob Fosse , dancer, choreographer, actor
1988 - Tibor Sekelj , Croat explorer (b. 1912 )
1994 - Robert Bloch , author
1998 - Mary Frann , actress
2000
2002 - Vernon Corea , broadcaster, pioneer of Radio Ceylon/BBC
2004 - Andre Hazes , Dutch singer
Holidays and observances
External links
September 22 · September 24 · August 23 · October 23 · more historical anniversaries
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