It happened on this day, September 23rd.
Events:
1459 – The Battle of Blore Heath takes place, one of the battles of the Wars of the Roses, in which the Yorkist army is victorious.
1817 – Spain and Italy sign an agreement banning the slave trade.
1846 – Discovery of the planet Neptune at the Berlin Astronomical Observatory, thanks to observations by French astronomer Urban Le Verrier.
1856 – Work begins on the first railway line in Egypt between Cairo and Alexandria.
1928 – Yugoslavia withdraws from the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.
1932 – Unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by King Abdulaziz Al Saud.
1948 – Formation of the Pan-Palestinian government led by Ahmed Hilmi Abdel Baqi.
1973 – Former Argentine President Juan Perón returns to Argentina after 18 years in exile.
1983 – 111 people are killed in a Gulf Air plane crash in Abu Dhabi.
1986 – Egyptian Ambassador-designate to Israel Mohamed Bassiouni presents his credentials to Israeli President Chaim Herzog.
1992 – The United Nations General Assembly excludes the new Yugoslav Federation from membership.
1997 – Gunmen in Algeria kill 280 people and injure hundreds around Algiers.
✴️ The Al-Khobar Sharia Court in Saudi Arabia sentenced the two English nurses, “Deborah Barry” and “Lucille McLoughlan”, to death for the first and to 8 years in prison and 500 lashes for the second, for the murder of their colleague, the Australian nurse, “Yvonne Gilford”. The decision was overturned after paying $1.2 million in blood money to the victim's sister.
2007 – Yasuo Fukuda is elected President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, becoming Prime Minister of Japan.
2009 – King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud inaugurates King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in the presence of a number of world heads of state.
2011 – Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas applies for full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations.
2014 – A US-led international coalition launches military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2015 – German automaker Volkswagen Group chairman Martin Winterkorn resigns following the engine-cheating scandal, which took on global proportions and caused the group to lose billions of dollars in stock market value.
2019 – The announcement of the bankruptcy of the Thomas Cook Group and the British company Thomas Cook Airlines, as well as the collapse of the company, caused suffering to 600,000 air passengers worldwide.
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Births:
480 BC -Euripides, Greek playwright.
63 BC – Augustus Caesar, Emperor of the Roman Empire.
1215 – Emperor Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor.
1713 – Ahmed Al-Attar, Iraqi Muslim jurist and Arab poet.
1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi, 117th Empress of Japan.
1791 – Johann Encke, German astronomer.
1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist.
1869 – Mary Mallon first brought typhoid fever to the United States.
1880 – John Boyd, Scottish nutritionist and physiologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949.
1890 – Friedrich Paulus, German soldier.
1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovak writer and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984.
1915 – Clifford Shull, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994.
1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian Prime Minister.
1920 – Ovadia Yosef, Israeli rabbi.
1923 – Muhammad Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist.
1930 – Ray Charles, American singer.
1940 – Sayed Hijab, Egyptian poet.
1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer.
** Antonio Tabocchi, Italian writer.
(1945–IgorIvanovRussian politician
1953 – Jean Kahwaji, commander of the Lebanese army.
1956 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer.
1967 – Fajer Al-Saeed, Kuwaiti writer. Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer.
1969 – Jan Schopark, Czech footballer.
1972 – Pierre Amin Gemayel, Lebanese politician.
1973 – Mona El Shazly, Egyptian media personality.
1977 – Suzan Tamim, Lebanese singer.
1981 – Nathalie Hörler, German singer.
1983 – Ryan Seaman, American drummer.
1985 – Hossein Kaabi, Iranian footballer.
1988 – Juan Martin del Potro, Argentine tennis player.
** Sahar Abu Sharouf, Syrian singer.
1991 – Key, South Korean singer.
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Death:
1241 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic military leader, historian, poet, critic and storyteller.
1561 – Shahzade Bayezid, son of Sultan Suleiman.
1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer.
1877 – Urban Le Verrier, French mathematician.
1929 – Richard Siegmund, Austrian-German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925.
1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist.
1942 – Ghumam Hamadhani, Iranian poet.
1946 – Abu Al-Hasan Al-Musawi Al-Isfahani, Twelver Shiite authority and jurist.
1956 – Zigoud Youssef, Algerian activist of the Algerian Revolution.
1968 – Saint Padre Pio, Italian Catholic saint.
1972 – Amal Zayed, Egyptian actress.
1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature
1978 – Abu Al-Hasan Al-Sadr, Iraqi Muslim scholar and poet.
1979 – Hosni Kapo, Albanian politician and military man.
2006 – Malcolm Arnold, English musician.
2009 – Ertugrul Osman, eldest grandson of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
2016 – Muhammad Hassan Al-Dahlawi, Kuwaiti actor.
2020 – Nour al-Din Attar, modern Syrian scholar.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Autumn equinox.
⬅️ National Day in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
⬅️ International Day of Sign Languages.
