Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 23 throughout history.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east…
Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.
An election is a group decision-making process whereby a portion or all of a population or group votes to choose an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office or oth…
Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation…
A grand jury is a jury empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand ju…
A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug…
The 2019 Papua protests were a series of protests by Papuans in Indonesia that began on 19 August 2019 and mainly took place across Indonesian Papua region in response to the arre…
Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.
Typhoon Usagi, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Odette, was a tropical cyclone which affected Taiwan, the Philippines, China, and Hong Kong in mid September 2013. Usagi was the…
Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.
Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis was an American murderer who was the only woman on death row in Virginia prior to her execution. She was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the mu…
Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in…
On 23 September 2008, a school shooting occurred at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK) in Kauhajoki, Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari,…
Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It occu…
Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
Qantas Flight 1 (QF1/QFA1) was a Qantas passenger flight between Sydney and London with a stop in Bangkok-Don Mueang. On 23 September 1999, the Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight …
Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.
Gulf Air Flight 771 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi International Airport, Abu Dhabi, United Ara…
Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.
Presidential elections were held in Argentina on 23 September 1973.
Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
The 1967 Coho Salmon Fishing Disaster refers to a squall over Lake Michigan, off the coast of Michigan in the United States, which occurred on September 23, 1967. Hundreds of smal…
Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during…
Typhoon Wilda was an intense typhoon that was tied for lowest central pressure of any typhoon in 1964, along with Typhoon Sally. As the twenty-fourth named storm of the season, it…
Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and…
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923 was a chartered military transport flight that ditched in the North Atlantic Ocean on September 23, 1962. The Lockheed Constellation L-1049H was trans…
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic…
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected pres…
U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of…
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, i…
Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little…
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms…
A tropical storm originating in the eastern Pacific Ocean passes into the Gulf of Mexico and is upgraded and named…
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Lo…
An all-white jury in Mississippi finds Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam not guilty in the torture-murder of 14-year-old…
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in …
After being accused of financial improprieties, Senator Richard Nixon delivers his "Checkers speech" nationwide on…
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 19…
George VI, king of the United Kingdom, has his left lung removed in an operation after a malignant tumour was found.