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Translations101

  1. 23 September 1967 - Soviets sign a pact to send more aid to Hanoi.
  2. 23 September 1912 - Mack Sennet's first "Keystone Cop" film debuts, Cohen Collects a Debt.
  3. 23 September 1806 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition arrives back in St. Louis just over three years after its departure.
  4. 23 September 1779 - American navy under John Paul Jones, commanding from Bonhomme Richard, defeats/captures the British man-of-war Serapis.
  5. 23 September 1739 - The Austrians sign the Treaty of Belgrade after having lost the city to the Turks.
  6. 23 September 1667 - Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their freedom by converting to Christianity.
  7. 23 September 1577 - William of Orange makes his triumphant entry into Brussels, Belgium.
  8. 23 September 1561 - Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing efforts in Florida.
  9. 23 September 1553 - The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and establish themselves as rulers of Morocco.
  10. 23 September - Saudi Arabia (unification of the kingdoms Nejd and Hejaz 1932).
  11. 22 September 1906 - Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia leave 21 people dead.
  12. 22 September 1862 - Lincoln: Proclamation for slaves within rebel states to be freed 1 January keeps British from intervening with the South
  13. 22 September 1791 - Michael Faraday, English physicist, inventor of the dynamo, the transformer and the electric motor, born.
  14. 22 September 1789 - Russian forces (Aleksandr Suvorov) drive Turkish army (Yusuf Pasha) from Rymnik River upsetting invasion of Russia.
  15. 22 September 1776 - Capt Nathan Hale hanged as spy by British. Last words: I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
  16. 22 September 1711 - Tuscarora Indian War begins with Nth Carolina massacre of settlers after white encroachment and enslaving of Indian kids
  17. 22 September 1515 - Anne of Cleeves (born in Cleeves, Germany), fourth wife of Henry the VIII.
  18. 22 September 1960 - Mali: Independence from France and Proclamation of the Republic.
  19. 22 September is World Car-Free Day.