Independence
day
Saudi Arabia
UN
Day
International
Day of Sign Languages
Events
of the day
1122 – Pope Calixtus II
and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to
the Concordat of Worms to put an end to
the Investiture Controversy.
1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the
first naval battle of the Hundred Years'
war and the first naval battle using artillery,
as the English ship Christofer had three
cannon and one hand gun.
1409 – Battle of Kherlen, the second significant
victory over Ming China by the Mongols since
1368.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first
major battle of the English Wars of the
Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1568 – Spanish naval forces rout an English
fleet, under the command of John Hawkins,
at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure
worth over a billion US dollars, is lost
at sea off Land's End.
1642 – First commencement exercises occur
at Harvard College.
1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones
on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the
Battle of Flamborough Head.
1780 – American Revolution: British Major
John André is arrested as a spy by American
soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change
of sides.
1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle
of Assaye between the British East India
Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis
after exploring the Pacific Northwest of
the United States.
1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000
Turks are massacred during the Greek War
of Independence.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club,
the first baseball team to play under the
modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le
Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried
Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1868 – Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt")
occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company,
Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi
to produce and market the playing card game
Hanafuda.
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad
treaty", peacefully dissolving the
Union between the two countries.
1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta,
Canada, is founded.
1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original
title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by
French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published
as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is
renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1936 – First ascent of Siniolchu by a German
team.
1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak
army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1941 – World War II: The first gas chamber
experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action
on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack
Japanese unites along the Matanikau River.
1943 – World War II: The Nazi puppet state
the Italian Social Republic is founded.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers
speech".
1959 – Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell
Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
1959 – The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s
first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel
ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass
Strait.
1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts opens in New York City.
1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in
Chicago.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos
announces over television and radio the
implementation of martial law.
1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United
Nations.
1983 – Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes
the first African boxing world heavyweight
champion.
1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing
all 117 people on board.
1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros
sets the major-league record by striking
out the first eight batters of the game
against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1988 – José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics
becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
1992 – A large Provisional Irish Republican
Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories
in Belfast.
1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first
observed in the United States.
1999 – NASA announces that 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: At least 1,070
in Haiti are reported to have been killed
by floods.
2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti
Saari kills 10 people before committing
suicide.
Holidays
and observances
Autumnal
equinox related observances (see September
22):
Shūbun no Hi (Japan)
Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Bisexual community)
Christian Feast Day:
Adomnán
Padre Pio
Pope Linus
Sossius
Thecla (Roman Catholic Church)
September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Teacher's Day (Brunei Darussalam)
Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
National Day (Saudi Arabia)
Traditional New Year's Day in Constantinople
and Eastern Orthodox Churches; because of
the birthday of Augustus, not because of
the equinox.
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