On This Day in History
Today is Saturday Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2023 with 99 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include playwright Euripides in 480 B.C.; Roman Emperor Augustus in 63 B.C.; Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in 1215; suffragette/civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell in 1863; Mary Mallon, the so-called Typhoid Mary, in 1869; actor Mickey Rooney in 1920; musician John Coltrane in 1926; musician Ray Charles in 1930; musician Julio Iglesias in 1943 (age 81); actor Paul Petersen in 1945 (age 79); actor Mary Kay Place in 1947 (age 77); musician Dan Toler (Allman Brothers Band) in 1948; musician Bruce Springsteen in 1949 (age 75); writer/filmmaker George C. Wolfe in 1954 (age 70); actor Rosalind Chao in 1957 (age 67); actor Jason Alexander in 1959 (age 65); actor Elizabeth Pena in 1959; actor LisaRaye McCoy in 1967 (age 57); musician Ani DiFranco in 1970 (age 54); writer Ana Marie Cox in 1972 (age 52); Umaro Sissoco Embaló, president of Guinea-Bissau, in 1972 (age 52); musician Jermaine Dupri Mauldin in 1972 (age 52); musician Sam Bettens (K's Choice/Rex Rebel) in 1972 (age 52); filmmaker Christopher Miller in 1975 (age 49); musician Rachael Yamagata in 1977 (age 47); actor Anthony Mackie in 1978 (age 46); actor David Lim in 1983 (age 41); actor Cush Jumbo in 1985 (age 39); comedian Hasan Minhaj in 1985 (age 39); actor Skylar Astin in 1987 (age 37).
On this date in history:
In 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and back. The duo received translation and diplomatic help from Shoshone woman Sacagawea on the more-than-two-year journey.
In 1846, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory. Neptune generally is the eighth planet from the sun.
In 1909, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera was published.
In 1950, the U.S. Congress adopted the Internal Security Act, which provided for the registration of communists. Leaders of the Communist Party vowed never to register , and it was later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the corn fields of Iowa to find out what made the American farmer tick and urged that the earth "be furrowed by plows, not rockets and tanks."
In 1966, a Rolling Stones' concert at England's Royal Albert concert hall was halted temporarily when screaming girls attacked Mick Jagger onstage. The riotous enthusiasm of the fans resulted in a ban of pop concerts at the hall.
In 1973, Juan Peron was again elected president of Argentina after 18 years in exile. His second wife, Isabel, who became vice president, succeeded him after he died 10 months later.
In 1991, 44 U.N. inspectors were detained in Baghdad after attempting to remove secret Iraqi plans for building nuclear weapons. They were freed five days later.
In 2005, a fire killed 23 people on a bus carrying Texas nursing home evacuees from Hurricane Rita.
In 2008, a 22-year-old student killed 11 adult students and himself at a vocational college in Finland 205 miles north of Helsinki.
In 2020, a grand jury indicted one of three police officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor in her Louisville, Ky., apartment - none on charges related to her actual killing. The decision led to protests.
A thought for the day: "Love dies only when growth stops." - American writer Pearl S. Buck
