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- 0918 The German king Conrad I dies after a 7-year reign in which he has warred with the Danes, the Slavs, the Magyars, and the duke of Saxony
- 1122 Concordat of Worms.
- 1459 Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
- 1529 The Siege of Vienna begins as Suleiman I begins his attack on the city.
- 1642 First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
- 1779 American Revolution; USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war HMS Serapis and HMS Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England.
- 1779 American Revolution; squadron commanded by John Paul Jones in USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.
- 1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'
- 1780 American Revolution; British Major John Andr arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's treason.
- 1780 British MAJ John Andre was apprehended as a Spy, near Tarrytown, NY
- 1803 Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye.
- 1803 The Battle of Assaye ends in victory for British forces under Arthur Wellesley, 34, brother of India's governor-general Richard Colley, first marquis Wellesley
- 1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 1818 Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
- 1845 First baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
- 1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
- 1846 Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
- 1846 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
- 1848 First commercial production of chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.
- 1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
- 1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
- 1868 Grito de Lares (Lares Revolt) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
- 1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
- 1875 William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time.
- 1879 Baldwin steam motors tram first tried in Sydney Australia
- 1884 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.
- 1897 First frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
- 1905 Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
- 1908 University of Alberta opens
- 1912 The first ever silent 'Keystone Cops' film released
- 1912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" is released.
- 1912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
- 1912 The first ever silent 'Keystone Cops' film released
- 1922 Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
- 1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
- 1932 Kingdom of Hejaz andNejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)
- 1941 First gassing experiments are made at Auschwitz.
- 1941 The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
- 1942 First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
- 1942 HMAS VOYAGER (RAN),lost in the East Indies, south coast of Timor ran aground, possibly bombed by Japanese aircraft (sources vary) and destroyed by own forces.
- 1949 Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation
- 1952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
- 1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
- 1952 Rocky Marciano KOs heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1952 Rocky Marciano knocked Jersey Joe Walcott out in the thirteenth round, becoming the new Heavyweight Champion.
- 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia’s first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
- 1959 e M/S Princess of Tasmania Australias first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
- 1961 First movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
- 1962 ABC's first color TV series-The Jetsons
- 1962 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opens with the first building completed, Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.
- 1962 The Jetsons aired for the first time.
- 1963 Visitor posting - angela sah juan born - USA
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself
- 1967 Radio Malta stops testing
- 1969 Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead
- 1969 The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
- 1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
- 1973 Juan Pern returns to power in Argentina.
- 1973 Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1974 Visitor posting - SEPT 23, 1974 MICHAEL JOINS THE WORLD - LAST NAME OF ' SOLOMON ' - PARENTS OF AUDREY AND BARRY
- 1976 Ford-Carter TV debate
- 1976 Visitor posting - 9/23/1976 Jennifer L Pinheiro was born. Portland OR USA
- 1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
- 1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
- 1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
- 1977 Visitor posting - September 23 1977 Andelko Krsulic was born
- 1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
- 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - 10 CC - Dreadlock Holiday
- 1979 Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
- 1980 Visitor posting - Noemy Tapia Hernandez, is born by noon. - United States
- 1980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
- 1980 Bob Marley's last concert.
- 1980 The premiere of Brian Friel's play Translations in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- 1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
- 1988 Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
- 1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on The Civil War
- 1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
- 1990 Visitor posting - MERILY is born at 2:45 pm on a very sunny Sunday - Estonia
- 1991 NY Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame
- 1991 Visitor posting - Emily Genshaw was born - USA
- 1991 Visitor posting - September 23 1991 Jeremy Cole Wilson is born.
- 1991 Visitor posting - I (NAEHOMY RIVERA) WAS BORN IN 9/23/1991 - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jake Malachi Wright was born
- 1993 Sydney, Australia chosen for Olympic Games of 2000
- 1997 "The Adventures of Pinocchio" becomes the first DVD to incorporate DVD video games
- 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.
- 2000 Visitor posting - September 23, 2000 Amie Smith of Wildwood Nj. Married Robert Hancock of Ogden Pa. in Stone Harbor Nj. USA
- 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.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Tuesday September 23rd 2008 Colin and Jacqi marry, truly, madly deeply. Heart Mind Body and Soul, true love xox
- 2009 Visitor posting - ALFIE MARTIN PULLMAN GROVER WAS BORN ESSEX ENGLAND
- 2009 Visitor posting - Brooklyn Milan Mitchell was born to Corneisha Mitchell and Brandon Grant - United States
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