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This day in history: 23 September

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386 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 23 September.
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2024: Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.

Holidays and observances

Celebrate Bisexuality Day (bisexual community)

Christian feast day: Adomnán

Christian feast day: Blessed Bernardyna Maria Jabłońska

Christian feast day: Blessed Elena Duglioli

Christian feast day: Blessed Émilie Gamelin

Christian feast day: Blessed Francisco de Paula Victor

Christian feast day: Cissa of Crowland (or of Northumbria)

Christian feast day: Elisabeth and Zechariah

Christian feast day: Padre Pio

Christian feast day: Pope Linus

Christian feast day: September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Sossius

Events

2024Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.

2022Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.

2020A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.

2019Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.

2013Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.

2010Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.

2008Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.

2004Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

1999Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.

1983Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.

1973Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

1967Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during Michigan's first coho salmon sport fishing season.

1964Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships.

1962Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.

1961U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11,

1957Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central

1956A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named Hurricane Flossy just hours before striking the Gulf Coast and causing 15 deaths and an estimated US$24.8 million in damages.

1955An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till.

1952After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on television and radio, defending his actions and successfully salvaging his nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice Pr

1951George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found.

1950Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.

1947A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.

1942World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.

1932Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Ibn Saud, proclaims the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the current iteration of the Third Saudi State.

1920The Louisiana hurricane dissipates over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.

1918World War I: British forces capture Haifa, Acre, and Es Salt from the Ottoman Empire.

1913The United Mine Workers of America launch a strike which eventually escalated into the Colorado Coalfield War.

1905Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

1899Philippine-American War: the American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

1885Ethiopian forces under Ras Alula defeat Mahdist Sudanese forces in the battle of Kufit.

1884On the night of 23–24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.

1879The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society is founded.

1868The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.

1846Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

1821Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.

1803Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

1779American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

1723The treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed, in which Imperial Russia gains Derbent, Baku, and the coastal areas in between as well as the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad from Safavid Persia while the Shah receives Russian soldier

1642First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ends in a Royalist victory.

1561King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.

Born on this day

2001Lai Kuan-lin, Taiwanese film director

1999Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer

1997John Collins, American basketball player

1996Napheesa Collier, American basketball player

1994Bai Lu, Chinese Actress

1994Lee Mi-joo, South Korean singer and entertainer

1993Petteri Lindbohm, Finnish ice hockey player

1992Angel Garza, Mexican wrestler

1991Key, South Korean singer and entertainer

1991Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer

1991Melanie Oudin, American tennis player

1989Brandon Jennings, American basketball player

1989Taniela Lasalo, Australian rugby league player

1988Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player

1988Kairi Sane, Japanese wrestler

1988Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player

1987Skylar Astin, American actor and singer

1986Chris Volstad, American baseball player

1986Martin Cranie, English footballer

1985Chris Johnson, American football player

1985Cush Jumbo, British actress

1985Hasan Minhaj, American comedian, actor, and television host

1985Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player

1985Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player

1984Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American entertainer

1984Matt Kemp, American baseball player

1984Patrick Ehelechner, German ice hockey player

1983Joffrey Lupul, Canadian ice hockey player

1983Shane del Rosario, American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (died 2013)

1982Mait Künnap, Estonian tennis player

1982Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (died 2017)

1981Helen Richardson-Walsh, English field hockey player

1981Robert Doornbos, Dutch racing driver

1979Bryant McKinnie, American football player

1979Fábio Simplício, Brazilian footballer

1979Lote Tuqiri, Fijian-Australian rugby player

1979Ricky Davis, American basketball player

1978Anthony Mackie, American actor

1978Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (died 2013)

1977Dmitri Kulikov, Estonian footballer

Died on this day

2021John Elliott, Australian businessman (born 1941)

2021Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (born 1933)

2020Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (born 1927)

2018Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (born 1933)

2018Gary Kurtz, American film producer (born 1940)

2018Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (born 1942)

2015Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (born 1930)

2014Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1913)

2014A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (born 1943)

2014Don Manoukian, American football player and wrestler (born 1934)

2014Irven DeVore, American anthropologist and biologist (born 1934)

2013Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)

2013Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)

2013Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907)

2012Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (born 1966)

2012Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (born 1937)

2012Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (born 1948)

2012Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (born 1941)

2012Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (born 1920)

2010Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (born 1941)

2009Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1918)

2008Loren Pope, American journalist and author (born 1910)

2008Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (born 1942)

2006Etta Baker, American singer and guitarist (born 1913)

2006Malcolm Arnold, English trumpet player and composer (born 1921)

2005Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (born 1933)

2004Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)

2003Yuri Senkevich, Russian physician and journalist (born 1937)

2001Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (born 1928)

2000Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican baseball player and manager (born 1947)

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