Major Events
- 1122 Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V
- 1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
- 1862 Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
- 1884 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing
- 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
- 2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare", free heathcare for 500 million, world's biggest healthcare program
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Sep 23 in Film & TV
- 1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
- 1962 ABC's 1st color TV series "The Jetsons" premieres, created by Hanna-Barbera and Joseph Barbera
Sep 23 in Music
- 1957 "That'll Be the Day" single by Buddy Holly and The Crickets reaches #1 in the US
Sep 23 in Sport
- 1845 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
Did You Know?
The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released
Augustus Caesar
Kublai Khan
Victoria Woodhull
Typhoid Mary
Friedrich Paulus
Aldo Moro
Mickey Rooney
Tom Lester
Hasan Minhaj
John Coltrane
Ray Charles
Bruce Springsteen
Marty Schottenheimer
Juan Martín del Potro
Fun Fact About September 23
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)
Famous Weddings
- 1666 Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius, Earl of Simmeren
- 1862 Russian novelist and author of "War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician in Moscow, Russia until his death in 1910
- 1933 American gangster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline DeTolve, until her death in 1954
Famous Divorces
- 1915 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (33) divorces first wife Blanche Lasky after 5 years of marriage
- 2011 American actress Lisa Linde (39) divorces American "X-Men" actor James Marsden (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage
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Sigmund Freud
Pablo Neruda
Bob Fosse
Gale Sayers
Louise FletcherArticles, Photos and Quiz
'I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight'
After refusing to surrender, John Paul Jones, the father of the US Navy, achieved a dramatic against-the-odds victory against the British on this day.
September 23, 1779
Little Rock Crisis
The 101st Airborne Division escort the nine black students into Little Rock School in Arkansas
September 23, 1957
