September 23 - Wikipedia

September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). There are 99 days remaining.

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1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Sports

5 Holidays

Events

490 BC - Battle of Marathon; origin of marathon long-distance race (26.2 miles run by Phidippides)
1779 - USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war Serapis[?] and Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England
1780 - British Major John Andre[?] arrested as a spy by American soldiers
1803 - Battle of Assaye[?]
1806 - Lewis and Clark return
1846 - Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle
1875 - William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") is arrested for the first time
1868 - Puerto Rico declares its independence from Spain
1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical adding machine
1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1941 - First gas experiments at Auschwitz
1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers" speech
1969 - The Chicago 8[?] trial opens in Chicago, Illinois
1973 - Juan Peron returns to power in Argentina
1981 - Jack Henry Abbott[?], best-selling author, is arrested for murder
An equinox usually occurs on this date.

1983 - Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first boxing world heavyweight champion ever to come from Africa when he knocks out defending WBA champion Michael Dokes[?] in Akron, Ohio.