September 23 in history — What Happened Today in History

Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.

U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.

Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School.

A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named Hurricane Flossy just hours before striking the Gulf Coast and causing 15 deaths and an estimated US$24.8 million in damages.

An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till.

After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on television and radio, defending his actions and successfully salvaging his nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice President.

George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found.

Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 is the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II.

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.

World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.

Saudi National Day: Crown Prince (later king) Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Ibn Saud, proclaims the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the current iteration of the Third Saudi State.

The Louisiana hurricane dissipates over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.

World War I: British forces capture Haifa, Acre, and Es Salt from the Ottoman Empire.

The United Mine Workers of America launch a strike which eventually escalated into the Colorado Coalfield War.

Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad Treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

Philippine-American War: the American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.

Ethiopian forces under Ras Alula defeat Mahdist Sudanese forces in the battle of Kufit.

On the night of 23–24 September, the steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold, beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.

The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society is founded.

The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.

Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

Tripolitsa, Greece, is captured by Greek rebels during the Greek War of Independence.

Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones, naval commander of the United States, on board the USS Bonhomme Richard, wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

The treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed, in which Imperial Russia gains Derbent, Baku, and the coastal areas in between as well as the provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Astrabad from Safavid Persia while the Shah receives Russian soldiers for domestic peacekeeping.

First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ends in a Royalist victory.

King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.

Taniela Lasalo, Australian rugby league player

Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player

Kairi Sane, Japanese wrestler

Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player

Skylar Astin, American actor and singer

Martin Cranie, English footballer

Chris Volstad, American baseball player

Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player

Chris Johnson, American football player

Cush Jumbo, British actress

Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player

Hasan Minhaj, American comedian, actor, and television host

Patrick Ehelechner, German ice hockey player

Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)

Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)

Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907)

Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (born 1937)

Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (born 1948)

Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (born 1941)

Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (born 1966)

Sam Sniderman, Canadian businessman, founded Sam the Record Man (born 1920)

Malcolm Douglas, Australian hunter and television host (born 1941)

Paul B. Fay, American sailor and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1918)

Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (born 1942)

Loren Pope, American journalist and author (born 1910)

Malcolm Arnold, English trumpet player and composer (born 1921)