SEPTEMBER 23
It is frequently the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and the first day of the spring season in the Southern Hemisphere.
| Contents |
| Events |
| Births |
| Deaths |
| Holidays and observances |
| Religious feasts |
| External links |
Events
★ 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.
★ 1779 - American Revolution; ''USS Bonhomme Richard'', commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war ''HMS Serapis'' and ''HMS Countess of Scarborough'' off the coast of England.
★ 1780 - American Revolution; British Major John André arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's treason.
★ 1803 - Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye.
★ 1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
★ 1818 - Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
★ 1845 - The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, 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.
★ 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'.
★ 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.
★ 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", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
★ 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 is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
★ 1941 - The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
★ 1942 - First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
★ 1952 - Rocky Marciano knocked Jersey Joe Walcott out in the thirteenth round, becoming the new Heavyweight Champion.
★ 1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
★ 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia’s first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
★ 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 Eight trial opens in Chicago.
★ 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law and signs General Order No. 1 which orders the arrest of opposition leaders, media censorship, banning travel to other countries except for diplomatic missions, abolishing the Philippine Congress, establishing dictatorial government, take-over or sequestering of public and private corporations and suspension of classes for one week in the Philippines.
★ 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.
★ 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
★ 1983 - Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
★ 1988 - Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
★ 1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
★ 1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date.
★ 2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
★ 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.
Births
★ 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)
★ 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)
★ 1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
★ 1863 - Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)
★ 1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
★ 1865 - Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
★ 1869 - Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid
★ 1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
★ 1889 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
★ 1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
★ 1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
★ 1897 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
★ 1899 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
★ 1900 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
★ 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
★ 1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
★ 1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
★ 1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
★ 1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
★ 1912 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
★ 1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
★ 1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
★ 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
★ 1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
★ 1924 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
★ 1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
★ 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 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
★ 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
★ 1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
★ 1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
★ 1947 - Mary Kay Place, American actress
★ 1947 - Jerry Corbetta, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)
★ 1947 - Neal Smith, American drummer for Alice Cooper
★ 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 - Rosalind Chao, American actress
★ 1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
★ 1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician
★ 1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
★ 1958 - Larry Mize, American golfer
★ 1959 - Jason Alexander, American actor
★ 1959 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress
★ 1960 - Jason Carter, British actor
★ 1960 - Jeff Groteboer, American writer (d. 2003)
★ 1961 - Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
★ 1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
★ 1966 - LisaRaye, American actress
★ 1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
★ 1969 - Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
★ 1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer
★ 1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
★ 1969 - Donald Audette, National Hockey League player
★ 1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
★ 1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
★ 1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
★ 1972 - Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper
★ 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
★ 1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
★ 1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
★ 1978 - Worm Miller, American filmmaker
★ 1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player
★ 1981 - Misti Traya, American actress
★ 1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
★ 1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
★ 1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
★ 1984 - Louie Stephens, American musician, keyboardist for Rooney
★ 1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop idol
★ 1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player
★ 1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
★ 1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
★ 1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer
Deaths
★ 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)
★ 1871 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (b. 1786)
★ 1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
★ 1877 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
★ 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)
★ 1935 - the first two victims of the Cleveland Torso Murderer
★ 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
★ 1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
★ 1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
★ 1950 - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
★ 1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b. 1887)
★ 1970 - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
★ 1971 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
★ 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 - Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
★ 1994 - Robert Bloch, American author (b. 1917)
★ 1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (b. 1900)
★ 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 TV anchorman (b. 1937)
★ 2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
★ 2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
★ 2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
★ 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
★ 2006 - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b.1913)
Holidays and observances
★ In 2006, Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) fell on this day, beginning at sunset the evening before.
★ 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 Thecla.
★ Also see September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
★ Traditional New Year's Day in Constantinople and Eastern Orthodox Churches — because of the birthday of Augustus, not because of the equinox.
★ 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.
★ Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first recognized in 1999 and is observed mainly in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.
Religious feasts
★ Adamnan of Iona
External links
★ BBC: On This Day
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★ On This Day in Canada
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