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Today In History – September 23
There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.
Today in History in 1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition ends with the return to St. Louis, Missouri; and in 1875 Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time, for stealing clothes from a laundryman.
The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:
September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.
EVENTS
1338 – Hundred Years' War: The Battle of Arnemuiden is fought, as the first naval battle.
1409 – Battle of Kherlen: Second significant victory by the Mongols over Ming Dynasty China since 1368.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath: First major battle of the English Wars of the Roses.
1568 – Spanish naval forces rout and English fleet under command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulua near Veracruz.
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying treasure worth over a billion US Dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: After the Austrians march into Bavaria, France declares war on Prussia.
1806 – The Lewis and Clark expedition ends with the return to St. Louis, Missouri.
1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred during the Greek War of Independence.
1845 – Knickerbockers Baseball Club is founded in New York City. It is the first baseball team to play under modern rules.
1846 – The planet Neptune is officially discovered.
1868 – Grito de Lares, "Lares Revolt", occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1875 – Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time, for stealing clothes from a laundryman.
1889 – Nintendo Koppai, later the Nintendo Company, is founded in Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi.
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad Treaty", peacefully ending their union.
1908 – The University of Alberta is founded.
1909 – The Phantom of the Opera, a novel by Gaston Leroux, is published as a series in the Le Gaulois newspaper.
1910 – French-Peruvian pilot Geo Chavez becomes the first person to fly a plane across the Alps.
1913 – Roland Garros becomes the first person to fly a plane across the Mediterranean Sea, doing so from San Raphael, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed Saudi Arabia.
1938 – Mobilisation of the Czech army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1939 – Psychologist and key figure in Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud dies at the age of 83.
1941 – Holocaust: The first gas chamber experiments take place at Auschwitz.
1943 – The Nazi puppet state of the Italian Social Republic is founded.
1959 – Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
1965 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ends.
1972 – Ferdinand Marcos announces the implementation of martial law over TV and radio in the Philippines.
1973 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda dies, 12 days after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile.
1973 – Juan Perón retakes power in Argentina, but dies just over 9 months later.
1980 – Bob Marley plays in his last live performance, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the UN.
1983 – Gerrie Coetzee becomes the first African heavyweight boxing World champion.
1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
1989 – Azerbaijan declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
1993 – The 2000 Summer Olympics are awarded to Sydney, Australia.
1999 – NASA announces it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) is released.
2004 – Hurricane Jeanne reportedly kills 1,070 people in Haiti.
2008 – The Kauhajoki Shooting occurs in Finland, as 10 people are shot dead. The gunman, Matti Saari, later turns the gun on himself.
2009 – Major dust storms affect Eastern Australia, as people in Sydney wake up to find their city shrouded in red dust.
2017 – New Zealand general election: The centre-right New Zealand National Party under Prime Minister Bill English becomes the largest party for the 4th term in-a-row. The New Zealand Labour Party under Jacinda Ardern performs a lot better than in the previous election.
2017 – Iran announces a weapon-test, only a few days after a speech by US President Donald Trump in which he strongly criticised the country.
2019 – British travel company Thomas Cook collapses.
2019 – Russia joins the Paris Climate Agreement.
2019 – Climate change activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a United Nations Climate summit.