September 23 is the 267th day of the year. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year.
1459 Great battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought in Staffordshire to determine the lucky sod who gets to do the honors.
1641 The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion USD, is lost at sea off Land's End where they were fortunate to snag some good deals on all-weather activewear.
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York by some Amish farmers apparently.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda. Buy shares of this stock now!
1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Trust me, this is one of the great spectacles of the year even without the man on man sex and games.
1909 Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by French writer Gaston Leroux is serialized in Le Gaulois. Fabulosity with a way cooler mask, singing and dancing comes much later.
1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1939 Time capsule full of really lame stuff, to be opened in 6939, is buried at World's Fair in New York City
1952 Senator Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech.
1962 ABC's 1st color TV series—Jetsons
1969 "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois University newspaper, sparks widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death
1994 Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, and a little boy finds out who’s the boss
1800 William Holmes McGuffey, maybe gay US educator, writer. The McGuffey Reader sold over 120 million copies - the kind of sales the Bible or Webster's Dictionary gets. The Reader was a primer for school children designed to instill in them a Presbeterian Calvinist moral belief system.
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