Page 5: Historical Events In September - 23

1922  On September - 23 philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator   

1923  80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law on September - 23.   

1925  On September - 23 george Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man," premieres in NYC   

1925  On this day in history barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft)   

1926  On September - 23 gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title   

1926  On September - 23 gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title   

1926  John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (Round Midnight) on this day in history.   

1928  Robert Helps, composer on September - 23.   

1929  Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster on September - 23.   

1929  On September - 23 richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64   

1930  On this day in history the birth of Ray Charles, American singer   

1930  On September - 23 jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62   

1932  On September - 23 kingdom of Hejaz andNejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia   

1932  On September - 23 kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia   

1933  On September - 23 yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12   

1936  On this day in history giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins   

1937  Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit on September - 23.   

1937  Caro Roma, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1938  On this day in history time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)   

1938  On this day in history british premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich   

1939  On this day in history cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4   

1939  On this day in history sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83   

1940  On this day in history japanese troops enter IndoChina   

1940  -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees on September - 23.   

1941  On September - 23 first gassing experiments are made at Auschwitz.   

1941  General de Gaulle forms govt in exile in London on this day in history.   

1942  HMAS VOYAGER (RAN),lost in the East Indies, south coast of Timor ran aground, possibly bombed by Japanese aircraft (sources vary) and destroyed by own forces on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions   

1944  Colijn, Neth PM, buried on September - 23.   

1947  Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged on September - 23.   

1948  Braves clinch NL pennant on this day in history.   

1949  On this day in history truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation   

1949  Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant on this day in history.   

1950  Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open on September - 23.   

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1158  On September - 23 birth of geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)   

1161  Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181) was born on September - 23.   

1215  On this day in history birth of kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)   

1434  On this day in history birth of yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)   

1555  On this day in history birth of louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange   

1591  Michael Lohr, composer was born on this day in history.   

1596  On this day in history birth of joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher   

1598  Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655) was born on September - 23.   

0079  Death of Pope Linus on September - 23.   

0775  Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies on September - 23.   

0918  On September - 23 koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42   

0965  On this day in history death of aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered   

1241  On this day in history death of snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)   

1390  Death of John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346) on this day in history.   

1535  Death of Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513) on September - 23.   

1541  On this day in history philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47