Historical Events on 23rd September 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 Arnolds plot to betray West Point 1795 - Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris US Defector General Benedict ArnoldUS Defector General Benedict Arnold 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 dArrest find Neptune 1857 - Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die 1862 - Lincolns Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1863 - Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins 1864 - Battle of Athens VA 1868 - Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Ricos 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 Brechts 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 Kaufmans Butter & Egg Man premieres in NYC 1925 - Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack DempseyHeavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey 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 Worlds Fair in NYC (capsule contained a womans hat, mans pipe & 1,100 of microfilm) 1939 - Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4 British Prime Minister Neville ChamberlainBritish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain 1940 - -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees 1940 - Dutch nazi collaborator Musserts 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. Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 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 USSRs 1st nuclear device detonation 1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open 1950 - Phila As 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 Checkers speech 1952 - Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky MarcianoHeavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano 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 - Thatll 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 - Stravinskys Thieni premieres in Venice 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Singer-songwriter Buddy HollySinger-songwriter Buddy Holly 1959 - 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australias 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 - ABCs 1st color TV series - The Jetsons 1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 1962 - Martin Walsers Esche und Angora premieres in Berlin 1962 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open 1962 - NYs Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts MLB shortstop Ernie BanksMLB shortstop Ernie Banks 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 1971 - John Vermeers painting The Liefdesbrief stolen 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 Charlies Angels 1978 - 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit Actress Jane FondaActress Jane Fonda 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 Marleys last concert at Stanley Theatre Pittsburgh 1982 - Dolls 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 Reggae Musician Bob MarleyReggae Musician Bob Marley 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 MLB Player and Manager Sparky AndersonMLB Player and Manager Sparky Anderson 1986 - Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) 1986 - Congress selects the rose as US national flower 1988 - Fijis new constitution is proposed 1988 - Jose Canseco is baseballs 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 Alexanders 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) 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) Country Music Singer and Songwriter Garth BrooksCountry Music Singer and Songwriter Garth Brooks 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 Qantass 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 Actress Claire DanesActress Claire Danes 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
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