About September 23
September 23, 2022 is the 266th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 121 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
September 23: More About This Day
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
What Happened On September 23
- 1122 –Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1846 –Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
- 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.
- 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: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
- 1943 –World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded.
- 1952 –Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech”.
- 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 in New York City opens with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.
- 1972 –Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law.
- 1983 –Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
- 1983 –Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
- 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 –Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. Although some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas’s history since 1960.
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