King Squirrel here for today in history for September 23rd -> 63 B.C. Caesar Augustus was born in Rome. 1779 American commander John Paul Jones is said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle. 1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest. 1846 The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. 1939 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died at age 83. 1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside. 1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait. 1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet. 2011 The soap opera "All My Children" broadcast its final episode on ABC, ending a 41-year run.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:56:55 +0000
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