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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.

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