23 September

The **23rd o September** is the 266t day o the year (267t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 99 day left.

## Events

* 1806 - The Meriwether Lewis an William Clark expedeetion returns tae St. Louis, Missouri.
* 1846 - Offeecial Discovery o Neptune bi Johann Gottfried Galle.
* 1905 - Norawa an Swaden sign the Treaty o Karlstad, endin the union atween thair kintras.
* 1913 - Roland Garros flies across the Mediterranean Sea frae San Raphael, Fraunce tae Bizerte, Tunisie.
* 1932 - The Kinrick o Hejaz an Nejd is renamit Saudi Arabie.
* 1972 - In the Philippines, Preses Ferdinand Marcos propales the implementation o mairtial law.
* 1973 - Juan Perón returns tae pouer in Argentinae.
* 1983 - Saunt Kitts an Nevis jynes the Unitit Naitions.
* 1993 - Sydney, Australie is gien the richt tae host the 2000 Simmer Olympics.
* 1999 - Contact is lost wi the Mars Climate Orbiter.
* 2004 - Hurricane Jeanne kills 1,070 fowk in Haiti.
* 2008 - 10 fowk are kilt in the Kauhajoki Schuil shuitin in Finland; the gunman later turns the gun on hisself.
* 2009 - A major dust storm affects Eastren Australie, incluidin Sydney.
* 2017 - New Zealand general election: The centre-richt Naitional Pairty unner Prime meenister Bill English becomes the lairgest pairty for the 4t consecutive term; The Labour Pairty improves its share o the vote unner Jacinda Ardern.
* 2017 - Iran declares that it haes testit a medium-range missile in response tae a speech bi US Preses Donald Trump.
* 2019 - The traivel firm Thomas Cook collapses.
* 2019 - Roushie jyns the Paris Climate Agreement.
* 2019 - Climate chynge activist Greta Thunberg addresses a Unitit Naitions climate summit.

## Births

* 63 BC - Augustus, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
* 1215 - Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1294)
* 1713 - Ferdinand VI o Spain (d. 1759)
* 1771 - Emperor Kokaku o Japan (d. 1840)
* 1852 - Robert Ramsay Wright, Scots zoologist (d. 1933)
* 1880 - John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scots biologist, medicinar an politeecian (d. 1971)
* 1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
* 1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (d. 1986)
* 1915 - Clifford Shull, American pheesicist (d. 2001)
* 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politeecian (d. 1978)
* 1917 - Andy Black, Scots fitbawer (d. 1989)
* 1917 - Asima Chatterjee, Indie organic chemist (d. 2006)
* 1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor (d. 2014)
* 1926 - John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
* 1930 - Ray Charles, American jazz pianist (d. 2004)
* 1938 - Romy Schneider, Austrick-born actress (d. 1982)
* 1940 - Michel Temer, umwhile Preses o Brazil
* 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spaingie sangster
* 1946 - Bernard Maris, French economist, writer an jurnalist (d. 2015)
* 1946 - Jim McCalliog, Scots fitbawer
* 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American sangster-sangwriter an muisicker
* 1953 - Kenny Burns, Scots fitbawer
* 1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian fitbawer
* 1957 - Fergus Ewing, Scots politeecian
* 1959 - Jason Alexander, American comedian an actor
* 1968 - Adam Price, Welsh politeecian
* 1971 - Sean Spicer, umwhile White House Press Secretar
* 1988 - Juan Martin del Potro, Argentine tennis player
* 1992 - Finn Russell, Scots rugby union player
* 1993 - Jordon Forster, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 76 - Pape Linus
* 1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian componer (b. 1801)
* 1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b. 1803)
* 1877 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathemateecian an astronomer (b. 1811)
* 1889 - Wilkie Collins, Inglis novelist, playwricht an short-story writer (b. 1824)
* 1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrick-Hungarian chemist (b. 1865)
* 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrick psychoanalyst an psychologist (b. 1856)
* 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (b. 1904)
* 2006 - Malcolm Arnold, Inglis componer (b. 1921)
* 2014 - John Divers, Scots fitbawer (b. 1940)
* 2018 - Charles K. Kao, Cheenese-Hong Kong electrical ingineer an pheesicist (b. 1933)

## Halidays

* Northren Hairst an Soothren Ware Equinox
* Naitional Day o Saudi Arabie
* Celebrate Bisexuality Day