What are the important events that happened on September 23? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 23: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 23 is the 267^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 10, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,784,160 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontaheptagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 128 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,294 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 23: This Day In History

It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

September 23 Historical Events

• 1806 –
  Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
• 1846 –
  Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
• 1857 –
  The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
• 1909 –
  The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• 1969 –
  The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
• 1988 –
  José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
• 1999 –
  Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
• 1999 –
  NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
• 1999 –
  Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. Although some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas’s history since 1960.
• 2002 –
  The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.

Who were born on September 23?

• 1800 –
  William Holmes McGuffey, American educator and textbook author (d. 1873)
• 1819 –
  Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
• 1838 –
  Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
• 1890 –
  Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
• 1901 –
  Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
• 1939 –
  Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive
• 1940 –
  Tim Rose, American singer-songwriter, who had more success in Europe than in his native country (d. 2002)
• 1950 –
  George Garzone, saxophonist and jazz educator
• 1955 –
  Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
• 1958 –
  Khaled El Sheikh, Bahraini singer, songwriter and composer

Who died on September 23?

• 1605 –
  Pontus de Tyard, French poet
• 1773 –
  Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
• 1835 –
  Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
• 1867 –
  Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1840)
• 1900 –
  William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
• 1939 –
  Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of Psychoanalysis (b. 1856)
• 1958 –
  Jacob Nicol, Canadian newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1876)
• 1978 –
  Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (murdered) (b. 1950)
• 1994 –
  Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
• 1999 –
  Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)