September 23
This day in history:
- 1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.
- 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Haifa takes place in present-day Israel, part of the Ottoman Empire at that time.
- 1947 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.
- 1561 – King Philip II of Spain issues cedula, ordering a halt to colonizing efforts in Florida.
Births:
- 1961 – William C. McCool, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist, author, and critic (d. 2005)
- 1865 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (d. 1933)
Deaths:
- 2012 – Roberto Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Minister of Defence for Russia (b. 1948)
- 1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
Holidays:
- Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
- Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
- International Day of Sign Languages
Random Article of the day:
Beyblade Burst season 1
Beyblade Burst is the first season of the 2016 Japanese anime series Beyblade Burst. The series was produced by D-rights and TV Tokyo and animated by OLM, and it premiered on all TXN stations in Japan on April 4, 2016. An English version of the anime premiered in Canada on Teletoon on September 10, 2016 and on Disney XD on October 2. The series also premiered on 9Go! in Australia on December 5, 2016, and on Disney XD in the United States on December 19, 2016. The opening theme for the series is "Burst Finish!", by Tatsuyuki Kobayashi, while the ending theme is "Believe", by Shiklamen. The English theme for the season is "Our Time" by Shaun Chasin.