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What Happened on September 23rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2008	Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.
2004	Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
1983	Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
1973	Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1950	Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.
1942	World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
1905	Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1899	The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
1884	On the night of 23-24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.
1868	The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1846	Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1821	Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
1803	Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
1779	American Revolution: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
1561	King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.
1459	The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is won by the Yorkists.
1409	The Battle of Kherlen is the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.
1338	The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.
1122	Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
38	Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.

Famous People Born on September 23

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Year	Name
1899	Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1946	Anne Wheeler, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1983	Regan Smith, American race car driver
1913	Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
1964	Josefa Idem, German-born Italian kayaker
1977	Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1917	Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (d. 2006)
1952	Dennis Lamp, American baseball player
1889	Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic (d. 1974)
1958	Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer-songwriter

Famous People Deaths On September 23

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Date	Name
1939	Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
1386	Dan I of Wallachia
1967	Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)
1738	Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (b. 1668)
1929	Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1573	Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1987	Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1927)
2015	Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (b. 1930)
1917	Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1461	Charles, Prince of Viana, King of Navarre (b. 1421)