September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56). It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
NATIONAL AMERICAN GREAT POT PIE DAY
NATIONAL AMERICAN GREAT POT PIE DAY
1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun. The Hundred Years' War is the modern term for a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, for control of the Kingdom of France.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire. They were fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, those of Lancaster and York.
1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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.
1942 – World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River. The Guadalcanal campaign was a significant strategic combined arms Allied victory in the Pacific theater. Along with the Battle of Midway, it has been called a turning-point in the war against Japan.
1950 – Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 ― The first U.S. friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.
1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.
2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting (Finland): Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. (d. 1873)
1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
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1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. The spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed.
2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
2008 – Kauhajoki school shooting (Finland): Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic. It is estimated that at least 122 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary. (d. 1873)
1930 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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