Notable Historical Events on September 23rd
September 23rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
951 |
Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy |
1122 |
Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V |
1408 |
Battle of Othée; victory of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy over Liège. |
1459 |
Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses. |
1513 |
King Henry III & Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik |
1561 |
King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida |
1642 |
Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement |
1739 |
Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade |
1746 |
Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor |
1779 |
John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis |
1780 |
British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point |
1795 |
Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris |
1803 |
Battle of Assaye: British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army |
1806 |
Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest |
1818 |
Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed. |
1821 |
Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks. |
1830 |
Dutch troops occupy Brussels |
1835 |
HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago |
1845 |
1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code |
1845 |
Hunger strike in Hague |
1846 |
Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune |
1857 |
Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die |
1862 |
Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers |
1863 |
Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins |
1864 |
Battle of Athens VA |
1868 |
Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) |
1873 |
Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title |
1876 |
Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game |
1877 |
Hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200 |
1879 |
Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia |
1879 |
Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone |
1880 |
Jules Ferry forms French government |
1884 |
American 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. |
1890 |
Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning |
1895 |
French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms |
1897 |
1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) |
1904 |
Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa, Tibet |
1905 |
Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken |
1907 |
Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada |
1908 |
Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant) |
1908 |
University of Alberta opens |
1911 |
Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot |
1912 |
1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released |
1912 |
Mack Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt) |
1913 |
Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea |
1913 |
Serbian troops march into Albania |
1913 |
Women protests take place in the Free State, South Africa, led by Charlotte Maxeke, resisting government attempts to impose passes on women; passes are burnt in front of the municipal offices |
1914 |
Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves |
1920 |
Alexander Millerand elected president of France |
1922 |
Berthold Brecht's "Drum in the Night" premieres in Germany |
1922 |
Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament. |
1923 |
80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law |
1925 |
George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man" premieres in NYC |
1925 |
Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP |
1926 |
Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1932 |
Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
1933 |
Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 |
1936 |
Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins |
1937 |
Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit |
1938 |
British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich |
1938 |
Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm) |
1939 |
Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4 |
1940 |
-27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees |
1940 |
Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler |
1941 |
General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London |
1941 |
German air raid on Russian naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) |
1941 |
The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp |
1942 |
Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad |
1942 |
Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1942 |
The 'Manhattan Project' commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim - to deliver an atomic bomb. |
1944 |
Proclamation No. 30 was issued, declaring the existence of a state of war between the Philippines and the United States and the United Kingdom |
1948 |
Braves clinch NL pennant |
1949 |
Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant |
1949 |
US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation |
1950 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open |
1950 |
Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) |
1950 |
US Air Force Mustangs accidentally bomb British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed |
1952 |
1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event |
1952 |
Dodgers clinch NL pennant |
1952 |
Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech |
1952 |
Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
1953 |
KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad |
1955 |
Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2 |
1957 |
"That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1 |
1957 |
Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2 |
1957 |
WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw |
1958 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958 |
Stravinsky's "Thieni" premieres in Venice |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1959 |
1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait. |
1961 |
1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire |
1961 |
Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak |
1962 |
ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons |
1962 |
LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 |
1962 |
Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora" premieres in Berlin |
1962 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
1962 |
NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
1963 |
Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State |
1963 |
WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC |
1967 |
Greek Colonels' regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou |
1967 |
Radio Malta stops testing |
1968 |
WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV |
1969 |
Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead |
1970 |
Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia |
1970 |
Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon |
1970 |
Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Arthur Young announces his resignation |
1971 |
John Vermeer's painting "The Liefdesbrief" stolen |
1971 |
2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion |
1972 |
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law |
1972 |
President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines |
1973 |
Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power |
1973 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open |
1973 |
Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered |
1974 |
"Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances |
1974 |
BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service |
1976 |
Ford-Carter TV debate |
1976 |
South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them |
1976 |
Soyuz 22 returns to Earth |
1977 |
3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise |
1977 |
Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels |
1978 |
100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit |
1979 |
Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC |
1979 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic |
1979 |
Somali constitution approved by president |
1979 |
St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career |
1980 |
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens |
1980 |
Bob Marley's last concert at Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh |
1982 |
"Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1982 |
Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon |
1982 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1983 |
Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins |
1983 |
Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 |
1983 |
Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1983 |
Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio |
1983 |
Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards) |
1984 |
36th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, John Ritter & Tyne Daly win |
1984 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
1984 |
SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games |
1984 |
Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues |
1986 |
Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) |
1986 |
Congress selects the rose as US national flower |
1988 |
Fiji's new constitution is proposed |
1988 |
Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs |
1988 |
Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) |
1989 |
Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning |
1990 |
Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic |
1990 |
PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War |
1990 |
Saddam says he will destroy Israel |
1992 |
Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL |
1992 |
Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's dept stores in NYC |
1992 |
Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah |
1992 |
Mud storm kills 30 in South France |
1992 |
1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period |
1993 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh |
1993 |
Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high) |
1994 |
"The Shawshank Redemption", starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released |
1996 |
Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM) |
1996 |
Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM) |
1997 |
Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258) |
1998 |
32nd Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins |
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. |
2012 |
Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine |
2012 |
20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York |
2012 |
Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer |
2012 |
64th Emmy Awards: Homeland, Modern Family, Damian Lewis & Claire Danes win |
2013 |
25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China |
2014 |
Grammy Award winning rapper Eve (35) weds entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper at Cala Jondal Beach in Ibiza, Spain |
2016 |
US, Russia fail to agree on how to revive Syria ceasefire |
2016 |
Clinton proposes 65 percent tax on US billionaire estates |
2016 |
Syrian army announces start of a new major offensive in Aleppo |
2016 |
Uber testing self-driving cars in San Francisco |
2016 |
US confirms IS used chemical rocket in attack on troops in Iraq |
2017 |
China follows UN sanctions with bans, limits on fuel products to North Korea |
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