23 September
Notable Births
Lai Kuan-lin
b. 2001
Taiwanese rapper and singer (born 2001)
Yuqi
b. 1999
Chinese singer-songwriter (born 1999)
John Collins (basketball)
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Napheesa Collier
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Mijoo
b. 1994
South Korean singer and entertainer (born 1994)
Bai Lu (actress)
b. 1994
Chinese actress (born 1994)
Petteri Lindbohm
b. 1993
Finnish ice hockey player
Angel Garza
b. 1992
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1992)
Lee Gibson
b. 1991
Scottish footballer
Key (entertainer)
b. 1991
South Korean singer (born 1991)
Melanie Oudin
b. 1991
American tennis player (born 1991)
Brandon Jennings
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Taniela Lasalo
b. 1989
Australian rugby league footballer
Juan Martín del Potro
b. 1988
Argentine tennis player (born 1988)
Kairi Sane
b. 1988
Japanese professional wrestler and actress (born 1988)
Yannick Weber
b. 1988
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1988)
Skylar Astin
b. 1987
American actor (born 1987)
Martin Cranie
b. 1986
English footballer (born 1986)
Chris Volstad
b. 1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Joba Chamberlain
b. 1985
American baseball player (born 1985)
Notable Deaths
John Elliott (businessman)
d. 2021
Australian businessman (1941–2021)
Nino Vaccarella
d. 2021
Italian racing driver (1933–2021)
Juliette Gréco
d. 2020
French singer and actress (1927–2020)
Charles K. Kao
d. 2018
Hong Kong electrical engineer (1933–2018)
Gary Kurtz
d. 2018
American film producer (1940–2018)
Dayananda Saraswati (Arsha Vidya)
d. 2015
Hindu monk and teacher (1930–2015)
Don Manoukian
d. 2014
American football player and wrestler (1934–2014)
Al Suomi
d. 2014
American ice hockey player
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj
d. 2013
Syrian Army officer and politician (1925–2013)
Gil Dozier
d. 2013
American lawyer, politician, and felon
Ruth Patrick
d. 2013
American botanist and limnologist (1907-2013)
Pavel Grachev
d. 2012
Soviet general (1948–2012)
Roberto Rodríguez (baseball)
d. 2012
Venezuelan baseball player (1941–2012)
Corrie Sanders
d. 2012
South African boxer (1966–2012)
Sam Sniderman
d. 2012
Canadian businessman (1920–2012)
Paul B. Fay
d. 2009
American politician
Peter Leonard (journalist)
d. 2008
Australian journalist and newsreader
Malcolm Arnold
d. 2006
English composer (1921–2006)
Etta Baker
d. 2006
American Piedmont blues musician (1913–2006)
Sigmund Freud
d. 1939
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
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
1999
Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.
Qantas Flight 1
1983
Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.
Gulf Air Flight 771
1973
Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
September 1973 Argentine presidential election
1967
Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during Michigan's first coho salmon sport fishing season.
1967 coho salmon fishing disaster
1964
Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships.
Typhoon Wilda (1964)
1962
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923
1961
U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.
John F. Kennedy
1957
Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School.
Little Rock Nine
1956
A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named Hurricane Flossy just hours before striking the Gulf Coast and causing 15 deaths and an estimated USD$24.8 million in damages.
Tropical cyclone
1955
An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till.
Mississippi
1952
After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on television and radio, defending his actions and successfully salvaging his nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice President.
Richard Nixon
1951
George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found.
George VI