TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 23
1122 Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V
1553 The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco.
1561 Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida.
1667 Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity.
1788 Louis XVI of France declares the Parliament restored.
1779 John Paul Jones declared “I have not yet begun to fight!” aboard the American warship Bonhomme Richard in the battle against the British man-of-war Serapis.
1780 John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
1805 Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to establish a military post, Fort Snelling.
1806 The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure.
1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
1846 German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1912 Mack Sennett’s first “Keystone Cop” film debuts, Cohen Collects a Debt.
1932 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is Founded
1942 The ‘Manhattan Project’ commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim – to deliver an atomic bomb
1952 Richard Nixon responds to charges of a secret slush fund during his ‘Checkers Speech.’
1954 East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S. spies.
1962 “The Jetsons” premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
1973 Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina after being overthrown in 1955.
1981 The Reagan administration announced its plans for what became known as Radio Marti.
1990 Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to attack Israel if any nation tried to force it from Kuwait.
1991 U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.
1992 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates 3,700-lb. bomb in Belfast, completely destroying the Northern Ireland forensic laboratory, injuring 20 people and damaging 700 houses.
2006 A car bomb attack on a kerosene tanker in Baghdad leaves 35 dead and many more injured. The attack is part of the violence that is sweeping through Iraq during the holy month of Ramadan between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
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