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On this day - September 23
38 — Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the ...
1122 — Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the ...
1338 — The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the ...
1409 — The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over ...
1459 — The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the ...
1561 — King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to ...
1642 — First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the ...
1779 — American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones, naval commander ...
1803 — Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought ...
1821 — Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the ...
1846 — Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann ...
1868 — The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1879 — The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society is founded.
1884 — On the night of 23–24 September, the steamship Arctique runs ...
1899 — Philippine-American War: the American Asiatic Squadron ...
1905 — Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully ...
1913 — The United Mine Workers of America launch a strike which ...
1918 — World War I: The Battle of Haifa takes place in present-day ...
1920 — The Louisiana hurricane dissipates over Kansas after forcing ...
1932 — Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi ...
1942 — World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. ...
1947 — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, ...
1950 — Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US ...
1951 — George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung ...
1952 — After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator ...
1955 — An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. ...
1956 — A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean ...
1957 — Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. ...
1961 — U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American ...
1962 — Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super ...
1964 — Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike ...
1967 — Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 ...
1973 — Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in ...
1983 — Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 ...
1999 — Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, ...
2004 — Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces ...
2008 — Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before ...
2010 — Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the ...
2013 — Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong ...
2019 — Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua ...
2020 — A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police ...
2022 — Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in ...
2024 — Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in ...