Today in History
23 September
238 births · 97 deaths · 43 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1917
El Santo
Mexican professional wrestler (1917–1984)
Notable Births
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Lai Kuan-lin
b. 2001
Taiwanese rapper and singer (born 2001)
Key (entertainer)
b. 1991
South Korean singer (born 1991)
Kairi Sane
b. 1988
Japanese professional wrestler and actress (born 1988)
Deborah Orr
b. 1962
British journalist (1962–2019)
El Santo
b. 1917
Mexican professional wrestler (1917–1984)
Ghulam Mustafa Khan (literature scholar)
b. 1912
Pakistani academic (1912–2005)
Cec Fifield
b. 1903
Australian RL coach and former Australia international rugby league footballer
Johnny Mokan
b. 1895
American baseball player (1895–1985)
Notable Deaths
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John Elliott (businessman)
d. 2021
Australian businessman (1941–2021)
Nino Vaccarella
d. 2021
Italian racing driver (1933–2021)
Malcolm Douglas (documentary maker)
d. 2010
Australian filmmaker
Etta Baker
d. 2006
American Piedmont blues musician (1913–2006)
Yuri Senkevich
d. 2003
Chief Dan George
d. 1981
Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, actor (1899–1981)
Sigmund Freud
d. 1939
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
William Marsh Rice
d. 1900
American businessman and philanthropist (1816–1900)
On This Day in History
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2024
Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.
Israel
2022
Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
Election
2020
A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.
Grand jury
2019
Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.
2019 Papua protests
2013
Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.
Typhoon Usagi (2013)
2010
Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.
Teresa Lewis
2008
Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.
Kauhajoki school shooting
2004
Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
Haiti