Historical Events on September 23

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• 951 Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy
• 1122 Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V

• 1459 Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1st major battle of the English Wars of the Roses
• 1492 John I Albert (32) becomes King of Poland, succeeding his father, Casimir IV

• 1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement
• 1746 Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor

• 1795 Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
• 1803 Battle of Assaye: British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army

• 1818 Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
• 1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
• 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 US President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is published in northern newspapers [1]
• 1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
• 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, the beginning of data processing
• 1887 Tongariro National Park formed in New Zealand after proposal by local chief Ngāti Tūwharetoa - fourth national park in the world [1]
• 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
• 1891 Vocational school Troop College, later California Institute of Technology (CalTech) established in Pasadena, California
• 1895 French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
• 1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
• 1904 British Colonel Francis Younghusband and his expedition with accompanying military force leave 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

• 1913 French aviator Roland Garros (24) 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 Alexandre Millerand elected president of France
• 1920 Despite Japanese protests, China withdraws recognition of Tsarists representatives in China
• 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

• 1933 MLB New York Yankees commit 5 errors (3 by shortstop Frankie Crosetti), but beat Red Sox 16-12 at Fenway Park, Boston
• 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit

• 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

• 1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
• 1941 German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
• 1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz. concentration camp
• 1942 Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
• 1942 Transport #36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
• 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

• 1950 Canada's first mountain rescue by helicopter of a forestry worker from a Wells Gray Park forestry lookout

• 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 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant with a record of 96-57 over the New York Giants 92-62

• 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 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2

• 1957 White mob forces 9 black students enrolled at Little Rock's Central High School in Arkansas to withdraw
• 1957 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting
• 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 Australia's first passenger roll on/roll off diesel ferry, the MS Princess of Tasmania makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait
• 1961 1st movie to become a TV series, "How to Marry a Millionaire" premieres

• 1962 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills breaks Ty Cobb's 1915 MLB steals record, recording #97 on his way to 104

• 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
• 1967 Greek Colonels' regime frees ex-Prime Minister 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

• 1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
• 1970 Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Arthur Young announces his resignation
• 1970 IBM announces System/370 Model 145, their 1st computer to employ semiconductors for its main memory
• 1971 2 members of the Official Irish Republican Army are killed in a premature bomb explosion

• 1973 Largest known prime number, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is found with computer aid by David Slowinski; holds as largest until 1985
• 1974 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service

• 1976 Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" play premieres in NYC
• 1976 South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them
• 1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth

• 1977 "I Just Fall in Love Again" single released by The Carpenters
• 1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
• 1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on TV show "Charlie's Angels"

• 1979 Somali constitution approved by president

• 1982 Amin Gemayel sworn in as President of Lebanon

• 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1983 Argentine military regime gives amnesty to military and political assassins
• 1983 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating in preparation of STS-9
• 1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa KOs American Michael Dokes in 10 rounds in Richfield. Ohio for WBA heavyweight boxing title

• 1984 36th Emmy Awards: "Hill Street Blues"; "Cheers": John Ritter & Tyne Daly win

• 1986 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
• 1986 Congress selects the rose as US national flower

• 1988 East German swimmer Uwe Dassler sets world record 3:46.95 to win 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; edges Australian Duncan Armstrong by 0.2s
• 1988 Fiji's new constitution is proposed

• 1988 Premiere of director Paul Schrader's crime biopic "Patty Hearst"
• 1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
• 1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
• 1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
• 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
• 1992 Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
• 1992 Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's department stores in NYC

• 1992 Mud storm kills 30 in South France
• 1993 Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high)

• 1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (WZMT 97.9 FM) and in West Palm Beach, Florida (WCLB 95.5 FM)
• 1997 Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)
• 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
• 2003 Crime drama "NCIS" starring Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherley, Pauley Perrette and David McCallum premieres on CBS in the US
• 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 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York

• 2012 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
• 2012 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
• 2013 25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China

• 2017 Women are allowed in King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time during Saudi Arabia's 87th anniversary celebrations

• 2018 Japan's space agency is the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid - Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft

• 2018 Mud volcano, the Otman-Bozdag, erupts 300m (980ft) high, near Baku, Azerbaijan

• 2019 178 year old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travellers worldwide, prompting the largest postwar repatriation effort by the UK government

• 2019 Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire hitting a journalist leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince

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