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Notable anniversaries in history for today: September 23
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Loren J Shriver in Iowa, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS-31, sk:46).
- 80th: 1944 - The Soviet Army crosses the border into southeastern Hungary.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Erik Todd Dellums; actor (Homicide, The Wire).
- 50th: 1974 - Death of Cliff Arquette AKA Charlie Weaver at age 68 following a stroke; comedian (Jack Paar Show TV show, Hollywood Squares TV show).
- 40th: 1984 - San Francisco 49ers' Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games.
- 40th: 1984 - Sparky Anderson is first manager to win 100 games in both baseball leagues.
- 20th: 2004 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state, USA, becomes active again.
- 20th: 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.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Ertugrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (born 1912).
- 15th: 2009 - India successfully launches an Oceansat-2 Indian remote-sensing satellite and six smaller foreign satellites in a single mission.
- 5th: 2019 - One of the largest and oldest travel firms, Thomas Cook, goes bankrupt, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide.
- 5th: 2019 - Russia formally adopts the Paris climate agreement.
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