September 23rd Events |
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| September 23rd, 2005 (September 23 2005) | Event | FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. | |
| September 23rd, 2004 (September 23 2004) | Event | At least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne | |
| September 23rd, 2002 (September 23 2002) | Event | The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released. | |
| September 23rd, 1999 (September 23 1999) | Event | NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. | |
| September 23rd, 1999 (September 23 1999) | Event | 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. | |
| September 23rd, 1988 (September 23 1988) | Event | Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club. | Jose Canseco Quotes |
| September 23rd, 1983 (September 23 1983) | Event | Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations. | |
| September 23rd, 1983 (September 23 1983) | Event | Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion. | |
| September 23rd, 1973 (September 23 1973) | Event | Juan Peron returns to power in Argentina. | |
| September 23rd, 1972 (September 23 1972) | Event | 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. | Martial Quotes |
| September 23rd, 1969 (September 23 1969) | Event | The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago. | |
| September 23rd, 1962 (September 23 1962) | Event | 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. ABC broadcasts in color for the first time, airing the initial episode of "The Jetsons." | |
| September 23rd, 1952 (September 23 1952) | Event | Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech". | |
| September 23rd, 1942 (September 23 1942) | Event | First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. | |
| September 23rd, 1941 (September 23 1941) | Event | The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. | |
| September 23rd, 1932 (September 23 1932) | Event | The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. | |
| September 23rd, 1922 (September 23 1922) | Event | Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament. | |
| September 23rd, 1912 (September 23 1912) | Event | First Mack Sennett "Keystone Cops" comedy is released. | |
| September 23rd, 1905 (September 23 1905) | Event | Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries. | |
| September 23rd, 1889 (September 23 1889) | Event | Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. | |
| September 23rd, 1884 (September 23 1884) | Event | Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine. | |
| September 23rd, 1875 (September 23 1875) | Event | William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time. | |
| September 23rd, 1868 (September 23 1868) | Event | Grito de Lares (Lares Revolt) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule. | |
| September 23rd, 1848 (September 23 1848) | Event | 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 . | John Home Quotes |
| September 23rd, 1846 (September 23 1846) | Event | Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. | John Adams Quotes |
| September 23rd, 1845 (September 23 1845) | Event | The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York. | |
| September 23rd, 1821 (September 23 1821) | Event | Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks. | |
| September 23rd, 1818 (September 23 1818) | Event | Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed. | |
| September 23rd, 1806 (September 23 1806) | Event | Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States. | |
| September 23rd, 1803 (September 23 1803) | Event | Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye. | |
| September 23rd, 1780 (September 23 1780) | Event | American Revolution; British Major John Andre arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold s treason. | John Major Quotes |
| September 23rd, 1779 (September 23 1779) | Event | American Revolution; squadron commanded by John Paul Jones in USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships. | Ron Paul Quotes |
| September 23rd, 1642 (September 23 1642) | Event | First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College. | |
| September 23rd, 1529 (September 23 1529) | Event | The Siege of Vienna begins as Suleiman I begins his attack on the city. | |
| September 23rd, 1459 (September 23 1459) | Event | Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. | |
| September 23rd, 1122 (September 23 1122) | Event | Concordat of Worms. | |
