September 23

Today in History
• 1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
• 1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement
• 1779 - John Paul Jones on the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats British frigate HMS Serepis
• 1821 - Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks
• 1857 - Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die
• 1862 - US President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is published in northern newspapers
• 1879 - Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
• 1911 - Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Education Technology Day
• Fall Equinox
• International Rabbit Day
• Martyrdom of Imam Hassan Asgari
• National Apple Cider Vinegar Day
• National Public Lands Day
• Seed Gathering Season
• Za’atar Day

Birthdays
• 63 BC - Augustus Caesar, First Roman Emperor (27 BC-14 AD)
• 1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan
• 1215 - Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (1260-94)
• 1712 - Ferdinand VI, the wise, King of Spain (1746-59)
• 1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan
• 1838 - Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist
• 1852 - William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school
• 1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia