September 23 Historical Events

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

Found 48 events. Showing 31 - 48.

• 1959
  The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia’s first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
• 1962
  The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
• 1969
  The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
• 1973
  Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
• 1980
  Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.
• 1983
  Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
• 1983
  Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
• 1983
  Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
• 1986
  Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

• 1988
  José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club.
• 1992
  A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast.
• 1999
  Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
• 1999
  NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
• 2002
  The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
• 2004
  Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
• 2008
  Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
• 2010
  Convict Teresa Lewis became the first female inmate to die by lethal injection in the state of Virginia.
• 2015
  On Washington, D.C., Pope Francis canonized Father Junipero Serra as a saint.