History for September 23

History for September 23 - On-This-Day.com:
William McGuffy 1800, Victoria Chaflin Woodhull 1838, Walter Lippmann 1889


Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920, Ray Charles 1930, Bruce Springsteen 1949 - Musician


1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"


1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.


1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.


1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.


1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.


1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.


1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.


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.