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The following events took place on September 23. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 48 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1122

  Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
• 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.
• 1409

  Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Ming dynasty China by the Mongols since 1368.
• 1459

  Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
• 1568

  Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
• 1641

  The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land’s End.
• 1642

  First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
• 1779

  American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
• 1780

  American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides.
• 1803

  Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
• 1806

  Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
• 1821

  Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.
• 1845

  The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
• 1846

  Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
• 1868

  Grito de Lares (“Lares Revolt”) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
• 1889

  Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
• 1899

  American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
• 1905

  Norway and Sweden sign the “Karlstad treaty”, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
• 1908

  University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
• 1909

  The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• 1911

  Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
• 1913

  Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
• 1932

  The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• 1936

  First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team.
• 1938

  Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
• 1942

  World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
• 1943

  World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
• 1950

  Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282: The first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurs.
• 1952

  Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech”.
• 1959

  Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.

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