September 23

[[pl:23 wrze%B6nia]] September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). There are 99 days remaining.

Events:

• 490 BC - Battle of Marathon; origin of marathon long-distance race (26.2 miles run by Phidippides)
• 1846 - Discovery of Neptune by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle
• An equinox usually occurs on this date.

Births:

• 62 BC - Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar
• 1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain
• 1838 - Victoria Woodhull, suffragist
• 1865 - Emmuska Orczy, novelist (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
• 1889 - Walter Lippmann, journalist
• 1916 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician
• 1920 - Mickey Rooney, actor
• 1926 - John Coltrane, saxophonist, composer
• 1932 - Ray Charles, singer
• 1943 - Julio Iglesias, singer
• 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, singer, songwriter
• 1959 - Jason Alexander, actor
• 1959 - Lita Ford, singer, guitarist
• 1959 - Elizabeth Peña, actress

Deaths:

• 1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, composer (Norma)
• 1900 - William Marsh Rice, philanthropist, university founder
• 1939 - Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist
• 1973 - Pablo Neruda, poet

Holidays:

• Feast of Saint Adomnan of Iona
• In ancient Latvia, the second day of Mikeli

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