History for September 23

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Caesar Augustus 63 B.C., William McGuffy 1800, Walter Lippmann 1889 


Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920, Ray Charles 1930, Ben E. King (The Drifters) 1938


Julio Iglesias 1943, Bruce Springsteen 1949 - Musician, Jason Alexander 1959 - Actor ("Seinfeld") 


1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!" 


1780 - John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British. 


1806 - The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest. 


1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune. 


1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier. 


1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president. 


1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color. 


1973 - Overthrown Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power. He had been overthrown in 1955. His wife, Eva Duarte, was the subject of the musical "Evita." 


1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America. 


1990 - Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to attack Israel if any nation tried to force it from Kuwait. 


1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.