About September 23
September 23, 2024 is the 267th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 128 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.
- 1459 –Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
- 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.
- 1821 –Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred during the Greek War of Independence.
- 1857 –The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
- 1868 –Grito de Lares (“Lares Revolt”) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
- 1908 –University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
- 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.
- 1932 –The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 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.
- 1986 –Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- 1999 –Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
- 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.
- 2002 –The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
- 2004 –Hurricane Jeanne: At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported to have been killed by floods.
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