What happened on September 23? There are more than 302 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

Interesting Facts & Myths About September 23

September 23 In HistorySeptember 23 is the 267th day of the year 2024. There are 99 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 39th week of the year 2024.

On this day in Crescent, Georgia 31304 sunrise will occur at 07:13 AM and sunset will occur at 07:21 PM (local time).

The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.

According to the Chinese calendar, there are 128 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).

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September 23: A Day In History

It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

Historical Events For September 23

  • 1122
    Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
  • 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.
  • 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: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.
  • 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
    Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
  • 1857
    The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
  • 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: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units 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 in New York City opens with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.
  • 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
    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.
  • 1983
    Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
  • 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.
  • 1999
    Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. Although some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas’s history since 1960.
  • 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.

Who Were Born On September 23?

  • 63 BC
    Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
  • 480 BC
    Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
  • 1158
    Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
  • 1161
    Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
  • 1215
    Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
  • 1434
    Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
  • 1598
    Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
  • 1647
    Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
  • 1650
    Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
  • 1713
    King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
  • 1740
    Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
  • 1759
    Clothilde of France, Queen of Piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
  • 1771
    Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
  • 1778
    Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (d. 1811)
  • 1781
    Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
  • 1791
    Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
  • 1800
    William Holmes McGuffey, American educator and textbook author (d. 1873)
  • 1819
    Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
  • 1838
    Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
  • 1852
    William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
  • 1853
    Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen, Princess of Saxe Meiningen (d. 1923)
  • 1861
    Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
  • 1863
    Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)
  • 1864
    Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
  • 1865
    Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
  • 1869
    Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid (d. 1938)
  • 1876
    Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1968)
  • 1880
    John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
  • 1889
    Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
  • 1890
    Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
  • 1895
    Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
  • 1895
    Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
  • 1897
    Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
  • 1898
    Les Haylen, Australian politician and novelist (d. 1977)
  • 1899
    Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
  • 1900
    William Frederick “Bill” Stone, British serviceman who served during World War I (d. 2009)
  • 1901
    Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
  • 1902
    Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
  • 1905
    Tiny Bradshaw, American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer (d. 1958)
  • 1906
    Bardu Ali, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer and guitarist, and musical promoter(d. 1995)
  • 1906
    Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat (d. 1995)
  • 1907
    Albert Ammons, American boogie-woogie pianist (d. 1949)
  • 1907
    Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
  • 1907
    Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
  • 1909
    Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo Albanian composer (d. 1991)
  • 1911
    Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
  • 1912
    Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
  • 1912
    Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
  • 1913
    Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
  • 1914
    Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
  • 1915
    Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
  • 1916
    Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
  • 1920
    Mickey Rooney, American actor
  • 1924
    Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary
  • 1924
    Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
  • 1925
    Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
  • 1925
    Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress (d. 2007)
  • 1926
    Jimmy Woode, jazz bassist (d. 2005)
  • 1926
    John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
  • 1927
    Mighty Joe Young, American Chicago blues guitarist (d. 1992)
  • 1928
    Frank Foster, American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer (d. 2011)
  • 1929
    Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
  • 1930
    Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
  • 1930
    Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
  • 1930
    Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996)
  • 1931
    Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
  • 1931
    Hilly Kristal, American club owner (CBGB) and musician (d. 2007)
  • 1934
    Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
  • 1935
    Les McCann, American soul jazz piano player and vocalist
  • 1935
    Prem Chopra, Indian actor
  • 1936
    Dr. Tareq Suheimat, Jordanian physician, nephrologist
  • 1936
    Sylvain Saudan, Swiss extreme skier
  • 1936
    Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Peruvian politician
  • 1937
    Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist
  • 1938
    Romy Schneider, French actress (d. 1982)
  • 1938
    Tom Lester, American actor
  • 1939
    Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
  • 1939
    Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
  • 1939
    Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
  • 1939
    Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive
  • 1940
    Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian traditional-music singer, songwriter, multi-instument player
  • 1940
    Tim Rose, American singer-songwriter, who had more success in Europe than in his native country (d. 2002)
  • 1941
    George Jackson, American civil-rights activist (d. 1971)
  • 1941
    Norma Winstone, British jazz singer and lyricist
  • 1941
    Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1942
    Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
  • 1943
    Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
  • 1943
    Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
  • 1943
    Tanuja, Indian actress
  • 1944
    Eric Bogle, British/Australian singer and songwriter
  • 1945
    Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
  • 1945
    Paul Petersen, American actor
  • 1946
    Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
  • 1947
    Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1947
    Mary Kay Place, American actress
  • 1947
    Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper’s drummer)
  • 1948
    Don Grolnick, American jazz and pop pianist and composer
  • 1949
    Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
  • 1949
    Floella Benjamin(Baroness Benjamin), British actress, authour, television presenter, business woman and politician
  • 1950
    George Garzone, saxophonist and jazz educator
  • 1952
    Dennis Lamp, American baseball player
  • 1952
    Jim Morrison, American baseball player
  • 1952
    Mark Bego, American biographer
  • 1954
    Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
  • 1954
    Cherie Blair, British lawyer and spouse of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair
  • 1955
    Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
  • 1956
    Peter David, American writer
  • 1957
    Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer
  • 1957
    Rosalind Chao, American actress
  • 1957
    Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
  • 1958
    Danielle Dax, British musician
  • 1958
    Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer, songwriter and composer
  • 1958
    Larry Mize, American golfer
  • 1958
    Marvin Lewis, American football coach
  • 1959
    Jason Alexander, American actor
  • 1959
    Martin Page, English singer and songwriter
  • 1961
    Chi McBride, American actor
  • 1961
    Elizabeth Peña, American actress
  • 1961
    Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
  • 1963
    Anne-Marie Cadieux, Canadian actress
  • 1964
    Bill Phillips, American author
  • 1964
    Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
  • 1964
    Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
  • 1964
    Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and head coach
  • 1966
    LisaRaye, American actress
  • 1966
    Pete Harnisch, American baseball player
  • 1968
    Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
  • 1969
    Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1969
    Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
  • 1969
    Patrick Fiori, French singer
  • 1969
    Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
  • 1970
    Ani DiFranco, American musician
  • 1970
    Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
  • 1970
    Lucia Cifarelli, vocalist and occasional keyboardist for industrial music group KMFDM
  • 1971
    Eric Montross, American basketball player
  • 1971
    Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
  • 1971
    Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1972
    Ana Marie Cox, American blogger and author
  • 1972
    Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper
  • 1972
    Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
  • 1972
    Sarah Bettens, Belgian singer (K’s Choice)
  • 1972
    Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
  • 1973
    Artim Šakiri, Macedonian football player
  • 1973
    Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
  • 1973
    Vangelis Krios, Greek footballer
  • 1974
    Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
  • 1974
    Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
  • 1975
    Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
  • 1975
    Eric Miller, Irish rugby player
  • 1975
    Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
  • 1975
    Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
  • 1975
    Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
  • 1976
    Faune A. Chambers, American actress
  • 1976
    Kip Pardue, American actor and model
  • 1976
    Rob James-Collier, British actor and model
  • 1976
    Sarah Blasko, Australian singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1976
    Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer
  • 1977
    Fabio Ongaro, Italian rugby player
  • 1977
    Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1977
    Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
  • 1977
    Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
  • 1978
    Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
  • 1978
    Worm Miller, American filmmaker
  • 1979
    Lote Tuqiri, Fijian/Australian Rugby League and Rugby Union Player
  • 1979
    Ricky Davis, American basketball player
  • 1980
    Cameron Litvack, American television producer
  • 1980
    Matt White, American singer
  • 1981
    Misti Traya, American actress
  • 1981
    Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
  • 1981
    Robert Doornbos, Dutch racing driver
  • 1982
    Mait Künnap, Estonian tennis player
  • 1982
    Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress
  • 1983
    Joffery Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1983
    Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
  • 1984
    Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
  • 1984
    Kate French, American actress
  • 1984
    Matt Kemp, American baseball player
  • 1985
    Brian Brohm, American football player
  • 1985
    Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
  • 1985
    Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
  • 1985
    Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1985
    Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
  • 1986
    Martin Cranie, English footballer
  • 1988
    Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player
  • 1988
    Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player
  • 1989
    Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
  • 1990
    Agustin Sierra, Argentine actor
  • 1991
    Key, Korean pop singer (Shinee)
  • 1991
    Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
  • 1993
    Sophie Borja, Welsh actress

Who Died On September 23?

  • 79
    Pope Linus
  • 1193
    Robert de Sablé, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
  • 1241
    Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
  • 1390
    John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
  • 1535
    Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
  • 1571
    John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
  • 1573
    Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
  • 1605
    Pontus de Tyard, French poet
  • 1675
    Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
  • 1728
    Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
  • 1738
    Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
  • 1764
    Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
  • 1773
    Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
  • 1789
    John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
  • 1830
    Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, American First Lady (b. 1768)
  • 1835
    Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
  • 1844
    Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
  • 1846
    John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
  • 1850
    José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan soldier and statesman (b. 1764)
  • 1851
    Émilie Gamelin, Canadian Catholic nun, founder of the Sisters of Providence (b. 1800)
  • 1867
    Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1840)
  • 1870
    Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
  • 1871
    Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (b. 1786)
  • 1873
    Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
  • 1877
    Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
  • 1889
    Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)
  • 1900
    William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
  • 1917
    Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
  • 1929
    Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
  • 1939
    Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis (b. 1856)
  • 1943
    Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
  • 1944
    Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
  • 1945
    Salvo D'Acquisto, Italian Carabiniere (b. 1920)
  • 1950
    Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
  • 1958
    Jacob Nicol, Canadian newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1876)
  • 1968
    Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian Catholic saint (b. 1887)
  • 1970
    Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
  • 1971
    Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
  • 1971
    J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
  • 1973
    Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
  • 1974
    Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (b. 1905)
  • 1974
    Robbie McIntosh, Scottish musician (Average White Band) (b. 1950)
  • 1978
    Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (murdered) (b. 1950)
  • 1981
    Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)
  • 1987
    Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (b. 1927)
  • 1988
    Tibor Sekelj, Jewish-Yugoslavian explorer (b. 1912)
  • 1992
    James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (b. 1892)
  • 1994
    Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
  • 1994
    Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (b. 1900)
  • 1994
    Robert Bloch, American author (b. 1917)
  • 1996
    Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
  • 1998
    Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
  • 1998
    Ray Bowden, English footballer (b. 1909)
  • 1999
    Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • 2000
    Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
  • 2000
    Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)
  • 2001
    Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
  • 2002
    Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b. 1927)
  • 2003
    Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
  • 2003
    Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
  • 2004
    André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
  • 2004
    Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
  • 2005
    Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
  • 2005
    Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
  • 2006
    Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b. 1913)
  • 2006
    Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
  • 2008
    Loren Pope, American writer (b. 1910)
  • 2008
    Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
  • 2009
    Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (b. 1918
  • 2010
    Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (b. 1941)
  • 2010
    Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)

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