Saturday, September 23, 2017

History for September 23

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History for September 23 - On-This-Day.com
Caesar Augustus 63 B.C., Walter Lippmann 1889, Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920
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Ray Charles 1930, Bruce Springsteen 1949 - Musician, Jason Alexander 1959 - Actor ("Seinfeld")
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1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"
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1780 - John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
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1806 - The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest.
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1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.
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1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
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1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.
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1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.
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1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
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