Major Events
- 1122 Concordat of Worms is agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V
- 1821 Fall of Tripolitsa: Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during the Greek War of Independence
- 1862 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
- 1884 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, marking the beginning of data processing
- 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support the integration of nine Black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
- 2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches “Modicare,” a free healthcare program for 500 million people, the world’s largest healthcare initiative
Sep 23 in Film & TV
- 1889 Nintendo Koppai (later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
- 1962 ABC’s first color TV series “The Jetsons,” created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres
Sep 23 in Music
- 1957 “That’ll Be the Day” single by Buddy Holly and The Crickets reaches #1 in the US
Sep 23 in Sport
- 1845 The first baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers, organizes and adopts a rulebook, known as the Knickerbocker Rules
Did You Know?
First version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox, dubbed Phoenix 0.1, is released to the public
Fun Fact About September 23
Time capsule to be opened in the year 6939 is buried at the World’s Fair in NYC; it contains a woman’s hat, a man’s pipe, and 1,100 feet of microfilm
Famous Weddings
- 1666 Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius, Earl of Simmeren
- 1862 Russian novelist and author of “War and Peace” Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18) daughter of a physician in Moscow, Russia until his death in 1910
- 1933 American gangster Sam Giancana (25) weds Angeline DeTolve, until her death in 1954
Famous Divorces
- 1915 Film producer Samuel Goldwyn (33) divorces first wife Blanche Lasky after 5 years of marriage
- 2011 American actress Lisa Linde (39) divorces American “X-Men” actor James Marsden (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 11 years of marriage
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