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What happened in history on this day: September 23?
On September 23 in ...
- 1122 - The Concord of Worms is reached between Pope Callistus II and the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Heinrich V. It is determined who has the right to invest clergy.
- 1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first commencement.
- 1642 - Prince Rupert's army and 1000 men on horse rout Earl of Essex's advance guard at Powick Bridge, south of Worchester, England.
- 1713 - Birth of Ferdinand VI king of Spain (1746-59).
- 1745 - Birth of John Sevier Tennessee, indian fighter (Governor/Republican-Tennessee).
- 1777 - The Liberty Bell is moved to Allentown, Pennsylnavia, to keep it safe from the British.
- 1779 - American John Paul Jones' Bon Homme Richard defeats HMS Serepis.
- 1780 - British Major John Andre is apprehended as a spy, near Tarrytown, New York.
- 1800 - Birth of William H McGuffey; educator (McGuffey Readers).
- 1803 - Battle of Assaye: British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army.
- 1838 - Birth of Victoria Chaflin in Woodhull, Ohio, USA; feminist/reformer/free love/first female presidential candidate.
- 1845 - First baseball team, New York Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code.
- 1846 - Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune.
- 1852 - Birth of William Stewart Halsted; established first US surgical school.
- 1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is published in Northern newspapers.
- 1868 - Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain).
- 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters; poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology).
- 1870 - Birth of John Lomax in Mississippi, USA; folk song collector/ethnomusicologist.
- 1873 - Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title.
- 1877 - Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies.
- 1879 - Baldwin steam motors tram first tried in Sydney, Australia.
- 1880 - Birth of John Boyd Orr; nutritionist, United Nations' FAO (Nobel Prize 1949).
- 1889 - Birth of Walter Lippmann in New York City, New York, USA; journalist/political writer (Men of Destiny).
- 1897 - First frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene, Wyoming).
- 1899 - In Cape Yakataga, Alaska, a magnitude 6.9 - 7.0 earthquake occurs.
- 1900 - Birth of Louise Nevelson; American sculptor (Sky Cathedral).
- 1910 - Birth of Soulima Stravinsky in Lausanne, Switzerland; Russian pianist (Igor Stravinsky's son).
- 1912 - First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released.
- 1917 - Birth of Imry Nemeth in Hungary; hammer thrower (Olympic-gold-1948).
- 1920 - Birth of Mickey Rooney in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Bill, Andy Hardy, Sugar Babies, Black Stallion, One of the Boys).
- 1926 - Birth of John Coltrane; saxophonist ("Round Midnight").
- 1926 - Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey in 10th round for world heavyweight boxing title.
- 1930 - Birth of Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia, USA; singer/pianist ("Georgia").
- 1932 - Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 1933 - New York Yankees commit 7 errors in one game but beat Boston 16-12.
- 1936 - Birth of Sylvain Saudan; skiier (60-degree descent).
- 1938 - Birth of Romy Schneider in Vienna, Austria; actress (Bloodline, Death Watch).
- 1938 - Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100 feet of microfilm).
- 1938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sends Adolf Hitler's demands to Czechoslovakia.
- 1938 - Czechoslovakia orders general mobilization.
- 1938 - France orders partial mobilization.
- 1939 - Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6; Brooklyn Dodgers get 27 hits and beat Philadelphia Phillies 22-4.
- 1939 - Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at age 83.
- 1940 - Japanese forces march into northern French Indochina, taking Tonkin Province quickly.
- 1940 - British and Free French forces commence a joint operation under Charles de Gaulle to try to seize Dakar in French West Africa.
- 1943 - Birth of Julio Iglesias; singer ("Of All the Girls I Loved Before").
- 1943 - The Italian Social Republic is constituted.
- 1944 - Birth of Loren J Shriver in Iowa, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS-31, sk:46).
- 1944 - The Soviet Army crosses the border into southeastern Hungary.
- 1945 - Birth of Paul Petersen in Glendale, California, USA; actor (Jeff Stone - The Donna Reed Show).
- 1946 - Birth of Anne Wheeler; Canadian director (This is Wonderland, DaVinci's Inquest).
- 1947 - Birth of Mary Kay Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; actress/country singer (Mary Hartman!, West Wing).
- 1947 - The Mounds Club in Cleveland, Ohio, is robbed by ten armed hooded men, taking an estimated $250,000 to $500,000.
- 1949 - Birth of Bruce Springsteen in Asbury, New Jersey, USA; rock musician ("Born in the USA").
- 1949 - US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation.
- 1950 - Philadelphia Athletics' Joe Astroth is fourth to get six RBIs in an inning (6th).
- 1952 - First US closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event: the Rocky Marciano versus Jersey Joe Walcott fight, in 49 theaters in 31 cities. Rocky Marciano knocks out the heavyweight champion in the 13th round.
- 1955 - Birth of Patti Weaver in West Virginia, USA; actress (Days of Our Lives, Gina - The Young and the Restless).
- 1956 - Birth of Maren Jensen in Arcadia, California, USA; actress (Athena - Battlestar Galactica).
- 1956 - Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at age 75.
- 1959 - Birth of Jason Alexander; actor (Seinfeld).
- 1961 - First movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire.
- 1961 - Birth of Elizabeth Peña in Havana, Cuba; actress (La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder).
- 1961 - Birth of Chi McBride; actor (Boston Public, The Nine).
- 1962 - ABC-TV debuts the cartoon show The Jetsons, the first program on the network to be carried in color.
- 1962 - Los Angeles Dodgers' Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104.
- 1962 - New York's Philharmonic Hall (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
- 1962 - Birth of Don Herron; country musician (BR549).
- 1962 - Birth of Elizabeth Pena; actress (Maya and Miguel, I Married Dora).
- 1964 - Birth of Erik Todd Dellums; actor (Homicide, The Wire).
- 1966 - Birth of LisaRaye; actress (All of Us).
- 1967 - Birth of Harry Connick Junior; singer ("We Are in Love").
- 1968 - CBS-TV begins airing the Here's Lucy TV show.
- 1969 - The ABC TV network airs the first Marcus Welby, M.D. 60-minute medical drama TV show in the USA.
- 1972 - Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar - Mama), dies at age 63.
- 1972 - Birth of Sarah Bettens; singer (K's Choice).
- 1973 - Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power.
- 1973 - Largest known prime is discovered: 2 ^ 132,049 - 1.
- 1974 - Death of Cliff Arquette AKA Charlie Weaver at age 68 following a stroke; comedian (Jack Paar Show TV show, Hollywood Squares TV show).
- 1976 - NBC begins airing the Baa Baa Black Sheep TV show.
- 1976 - Soyuz 22 returns to Earth.
- 1977 - Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on TV show Charlie's Angels.
- 1978 - 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome President Anwar Sadat home from Camp David summit.
- 1979 - Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City.
- 1979 - Lou Brock steals base number 938 to break Billy Hamilton's record in a 10-inning Saint Louis victory over the New York Mets, 7-4.
- 1979 - Birth of Erik-Michael Estrada; singer (O-Town).
- 1980 - Birth of Aubrey Dollar; actress (Women's Murder Club, Point Pleasant).
- 1981 - Death of Chief Dan George at age 82 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; actor (Old Antoine - Cariboo Country TV show (1961), Ecstacy of Rita Joe movie (1967), Little Big Man movie (1970, Oscar award), Harry and Tonto movie (1974), The Outlaw Josey Wales movie (1976), Old Sioux - Centennial TV miniseries (1978)).
- 1982 - Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.
- 1983 - Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explosion in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
- 1983 - Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
- 1983 - Space shuttle Columbia moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating in preparation of STS-9.
- 1983 - Philadelphia Phillies' Steve Carlton wins his 300th game (beating Saint Louis Cardinals).
- 1984 - San Francisco 49ers' Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games.
- 1984 - Sparky Anderson is first manager to win 100 games in both baseball leagues.
- 1986 - Houston Astros' Jim Deshales sets record of striking out first 8 men starting a ball game, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0.
- 1988 - Jose Canseco becomes Major League Baseball's first to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs.
- 1990 - The NBC TV network debuts the Disney-produced series Hull High.
- 1990 - PBS begins an 11-hour miniseries on The US Civil War.
- 1990 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series The Magical World of Disney.
- 1991 - New York Islanders' Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame.
- 1992 - 928th and last nuclear bomb test in the USA.
- 1992 - NBC debuts the first episode of TV show Mad About You.
- 1992 - A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
- 1995 - Argentine national Guillermo "Bill" Gaede is arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of industrial espionage. His sales to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran are believed to have involved Intel and Advanced Micro Devices trade secrets worth US$10-20 million.
- 1998 - Death of Mary Frann at age 55 of apparent heart failure at her home in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actress (Newhart).
- 2002 - CBS begins airing the TV show CSI: Miami.
- 2003 - CBS debuts TV series NCIS.
- 2004 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state, USA, becomes active again.
- 2004 - Tropical Storm Ivan, having come around and reformed in the Gulf of Mexico, makes its final landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, to little effect. In total, the storm will kill 92 people.
- 2005 - Convicted bank robber and Boricua Popular Army leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of the FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.
- 2006 - Toomas Hendrik Ilves is elected President of Estonia.
- 2006 - At Camden Yards, Baltimore Orioles player Jay Gibbons hits a foul ball that hits wife Laura in the rib cage.
- 2006 - In Milwaukee's Miller Park, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 734th career homer surpassing Hank Aaron and establishing a new all-time National League home run record.
- 2007 - PBS begins airing the 7-part, 15-hour TV series The War.
- 2007 - The Dalai Lama visits Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany.
- 2007 - Yokozuna Hakuho wins the Emperor's Cup at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament (Aki Basho) in Tokyo, Japan.
- 2008 - In Kauhajoki, Finland, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari kills ten people at a college before shooting himself and later dying in hospital.
- 2009 - Death of Ertugrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (born 1912).
- 2009 - India successfully launches an Oceansat-2 Indian remote-sensing satellite and six smaller foreign satellites in a single mission.
- 2010 - Video chain Blockbuster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with a plan to cut debt from near $1 billion down to $100 million, and giving a group of bondholders led by billionaire Carl Icahn and hedge funds a controlling stake in the company.
- 2010 - Brazil's partially state-owned oil company Petrobras sells US$70 billion in shares in the world's biggest-ever stock offering.
- 2019 - One of the largest and oldest travel firms, Thomas Cook, goes bankrupt, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide.
- 2019 - Russia formally adopts the Paris climate agreement.
- 2022 - In London, England, Roger Federer plays the last tennis match of his professional career, at the Laver Cup. Federer and Rafael Nadal played a doubles match against Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe.
- 2022 - Death of Louise Fletcher at age 88 at home in Montdurausse, France; actor (Nurse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest movie, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine TV show, Shameless, Best Actress Oscar award).
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