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Events on the 23rd of September in history

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23 Sep 0951 Otto I the Great becomes King of Italy
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23 Sep 1122 Concord of Worms
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23 Sep 1122 Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
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23 Sep 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.
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23 Sep 1409 Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming China by the Mongols since 1368.
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23 Sep 1459 Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
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23 Sep 1513 King Henry III and Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik
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23 Sep 1561 King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
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23 Sep 1568 Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
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23 Sep 1641 The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
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23 Sep 1642 First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
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23 Sep 1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
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23 Sep 1666 Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius Earl of Simmeren
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23 Sep 1719 Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire
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23 Sep 1739 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade
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23 Sep 1746 Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
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23 Sep 1779 American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
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23 Sep 1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'
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23 Sep 1780 American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
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23 Sep 1780 British MAJ John Andre was apprehended as a Spy, near Tarrytown, NY
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23 Sep 1795 Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
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23 Sep 1803 Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
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23 Sep 1803 Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
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23 Sep 1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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23 Sep 1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from the Pacific Northwest
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23 Sep 1821 Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
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23 Sep 1830 Dutch troops occupy Brussels
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23 Sep 1835 HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
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23 Sep 1845 1st baseball team, New York Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
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23 Sep 1845 Hunger strike in Hague
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23 Sep 1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
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23 Sep 1846 Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
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23 Sep 1846 Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
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23 Sep 1857 Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die
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23 Sep 1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
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23 Sep 1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
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23 Sep 1864 Battle of Athens, Virginia
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23 Sep 1868 Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
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23 Sep 1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
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23 Sep 1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
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23 Sep 1876 Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game
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23 Sep 1877 Hurricane strikes Curacao and Bonaire kills 200
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23 Sep 1879 Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
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23 Sep 1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
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23 Sep 1880 Jules Ferry forms French government
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23 Sep 1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
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23 Sep 1890 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
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23 Sep 1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
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23 Sep 1899 American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
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23 Sep 1904 Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet
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23 Sep 1905 Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken
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23 Sep 1905 Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
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23 Sep 1907 Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada
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23 Sep 1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
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23 Sep 1908 University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
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23 Sep 1908 University of Alberta opens
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23 Sep 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.
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23 Sep 1911 Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
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23 Sep 1911 Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
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23 Sep 1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
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23 Sep 1912 Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)
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23 Sep 1913 Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
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23 Sep 1913 Serbian troops march into Albania
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23 Sep 1913 Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
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23 Sep 1914 Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
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23 Sep 1920 Alexander Millerand elected President of France
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23 Sep 1922 B Brechts "Drum in the Night, " premieres in Germany
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23 Sep 1923 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
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23 Sep 1925 Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
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23 Sep 1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
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23 Sep 1932 Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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23 Sep 1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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23 Sep 1933 Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
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23 Sep 1936 Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins
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23 Sep 1936 First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team.
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23 Sep 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
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23 Sep 1938 British Premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
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23 Sep 1938 Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
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23 Sep 1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
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23 Sep 1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
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23 Sep 1941 General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
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23 Sep 1941 German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
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23 Sep 1942 Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
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23 Sep 1942 Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
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23 Sep 1942 World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
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23 Sep 1943 World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
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23 Sep 1948 Braves clinch NL pennant
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23 Sep 1949 Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant
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23 Sep 1949 Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
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23 Sep 1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open
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23 Sep 1950 Philadelphia Athletics Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
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23 Sep 1950 US Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed
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23 Sep 1950 Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurred.
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23 Sep 1952 Dodgers clinch NL pennant
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23 Sep 1952 Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for hw boxing title
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23 Sep 1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech".
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23 Sep 1952 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
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23 Sep 1952 Rocky Marciano KOs heavyweight champ Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 Sep 1953 KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1955 Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad
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23 Sep 1955 Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2
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23 Sep 1957 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
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23 Sep 1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
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23 Sep 1957 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS / FOX) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1959 Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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23 Sep 1959 The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
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23 Sep 1961 Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak
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23 Sep 1961 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
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23 Sep 1962 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
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23 Sep 1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
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23 Sep 1962 ABC's 1st color TV series-The Jetsons
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23 Sep 1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104
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23 Sep 1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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23 Sep 1963 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
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23 Sep 1963 WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City
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23 Sep 1967 Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou
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23 Sep 1967 Radio Malta stops testing
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23 Sep 1968 WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1968 WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1968 WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1968 WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1968 WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1968 WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Sep 1969 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
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23 Sep 1969 The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
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23 Sep 1969 Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead
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23 Sep 1970 Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes Premier of Malaysia
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23 Sep 1970 Gary Muhrcke wins 1st New York Marathon
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23 Sep 1971 John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen
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23 Sep 1972 Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law
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23 Sep 1972 President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines
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23 Sep 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open
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23 Sep 1973 Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
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23 Sep 1973 Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
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23 Sep 1973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered
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23 Sep 1974 "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances
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23 Sep 1974 BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service
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23 Sep 1976 South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them
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23 Sep 1976 Ford-Carter TV debate
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23 Sep 1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
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23 Sep 1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
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23 Sep 1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
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23 Sep 1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
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23 Sep 1979 Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City
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23 Sep 1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
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23 Sep 1979 Somali constitution approved by President
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23 Sep 1979 St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career
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23 Sep 1979 Lou Brock steals record 935th base
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23 Sep 1980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
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23 Sep 1982 Amin Gemayel sworn in as President of Lebanon
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23 Sep 1983 Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military / political assassins
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23 Sep 1983 Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 Sep 1983 Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio
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23 Sep 1983 Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards)
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23 Sep 1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
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23 Sep 1983 Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
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23 Sep 1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
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23 Sep 1983 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
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23 Sep 1983 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 300th game (beating St Louis Cards)
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23 Sep 1984 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, John Ritter and Tyne Daly
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23 Sep 1984 Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
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23 Sep 1984 San Francisco 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games
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23 Sep 1984 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues
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23 Sep 1986 Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
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23 Sep 1986 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
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23 Sep 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. This record was tied by Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets on September 15, 2014 against the Miami Marlins.
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23 Sep 1986 Houston Astro Jim Deshales sets record of striking out 1st 8 men starting a ball game, beating the LA Dodgers 4-0
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23 Sep 1988 Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)
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23 Sep 1988 José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club.
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23 Sep 1988 Jose Canseco becomes baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs
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23 Sep 1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
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23 Sep 1990 Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
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23 Sep 1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on The Civil War
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23 Sep 1990 Saddam says he will destroy Israel
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23 Sep 1991 New York Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame
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23 Sep 1992 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
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23 Sep 1992 Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
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23 Sep 1992 Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah
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23 Sep 1992 Mud storm kills 30 in South France
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23 Sep 1992 A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
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23 Sep 1993 "Les Miserables, " opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh
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23 Sep 1994 Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14
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23 Sep 1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach Florida (WCLB 95.5 FM)
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23 Sep 1996 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM)
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23 Sep 1997 Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)
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23 Sep 1999 Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
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23 Sep 1999 NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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23 Sep 2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
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23 Sep 2004 Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
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23 Sep 2008 Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.
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