Today in History
September 23
1553 : The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco.
1561 : Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida.
1577 : William of Orange makes his triumphant entry into Brussels, Belgium.
1667 : Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity.
1739 : The Austrians sign the Treaty of Belgrade after having lost the city to the Turks.
1779 : The American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding from Bonhomme Richard, defeats and captures the British man-of-war Serapis.1788 : Louis XVI of France declares the Parliament restored.
1795 : A national plebiscite approves the new French constitution, but so many voters abstain that the results are suspect.
1803 : British Major General Sir Arthur Wellesley defeats the Marathas at Assaye, India.
1805 : Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling.
1806 : The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure.
1864 : Confederate and Union forces clash at Mount Jackson, Front Royal and Woodstock in Virginia during the Valley campaign.
1911 : The Second International Aviation Meet opens in New York.
1912 : Mack Sennett’s first “Keystone Cops” film debuts, Cohen Collects a Debt.
1945 : The first American dies in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces.
1952 : Richard Nixon responds to charges of a secret slush fund during his ‘Checkers Speech.’
1954 : East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S. spies.
1967 : The Soviets sign a pact to send more aid to Hanoi.
1973 : Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955.
1983 : Gerrie Coetzee (Gerhardus Coetzee), a boxer from South Africa becomes the first boxer from the African continent to win a world heavyweight tittle (World Boxing Association).
1983 : Gulf Air Flight 771 from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, bombed; all 117 aboard die.
1992 : The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates 3,700-lb bomb in Belfast, completely destroying the Northern Ireland forensic laboratory, injuring 20 people and damaging 700 houses.
2002 : The first public version of the Mozilla Firefox browser is released; originally called Phoenix 0.1 its name was changed due to trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies.
2004Hurricane Jeanne causes severe flooding in Haiti; over 1,000 are reported dead.
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