WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/September 23
This is a list of selected September 23 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Richard Nixon delivering Checkers speech
Benedict Arnold
Ramon Betances
Billy the Kid
Neptune
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1123 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agreed to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy. | refimprove |
| 1459 – Yorkist forces led by Richard Neville defeated Lancastrian troops at the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. | refimprove secion |
| 1779 – American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones led a Franco-American squadron to victory in the Battle of Flamborough Head, one of the most celebrated naval actions of the war. | rewrite, primary |
| 1846 – Using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe Neptune and recognise it as a hitherto unknown planet. | neutrality issues |
| 1875 – Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time after stealing clothes from a laundryman, beginning his life as an infamous American outlaw and gunman. | trivia |
| 1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in Kyoto, Japan, to produce handmade hanafuda cards. | expansion |
| 1899 – Philippine–American War: The American Asiatic Squadron destroyed a Filipino artillery battery in Olongapo. | one source |
| 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merged with Al-Hasa and Qatif to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with Ibn Saud as the first monarch and Riyadh as the capital city. | refimprove |
| El Santo (b. 1917) | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army General Benedict Arnold to hand over West Point, New York.
- 1983 – A bomb placed by the Abu Nidal organisation destroyed Gulf Air Flight 771, flying from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, killing all 112 people aboard.
- 2010 – Teresa Lewis became 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 via lethal injection.
- 2016 – Major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany following a number of high profile sexual assaults.
- Born this day: Vincenzo Bellini (d. 1835) · Louise Nevelson (b. 1899) · Ambroise Noumazalaye (b. 1933) · Kostas Tournas (b. 1949) · Cherie Blair (b. 1954) · Michiru Yamane (b. 1963) · Sean Spicer (b. 1971)
September 23: Banned Books Week begins (2018); Celebrate Bisexuality Day; National Day in Saudi Arabia (1932)
- 1568 – Anglo-Spanish War: At San Juan de Ulúa (in what is now Veracruz, Mexico), Spanish naval forces forced English privateers to halt their illegal trade.
- 1803 – Maratha troops were defeated by British forces at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
- 1868 – Ramón Emeterio Betances (pictured) led the Grito de Lares, a revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.
- 1952 – U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the "Checkers speech", one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.
- 2008 – A gunman shot and killed ten students at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Western Finland, before committing suicide.
Eleonora Gonzaga (b. 1598) · Émilie Gamelin (d. 1851) · Bruce Springsteen (b. 1949)