This Day in History Sept. 23

Sept. 23

1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'
1780 British MAJ John Andre was apprehended as a Spy, near Tarrytown, NY
1803 Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from the Pacific Northwest
1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence
1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1908 University of Alberta opens
1911 Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America
1913 Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean
1932 Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC
1942 The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units
1943 The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded
1949 Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
1950 Korean War The Battle of Hill 282
1973 Largest known prime, number 132,049, is discovered
1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
1977 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1980 Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
1983 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released

1875, billy bonney alias billy the kid was first arrested for believe it or not stealing a box of laundry from a Chinese laundry, just a kid, young billy was put up to the job by a few others, the sheriff arrested billy, and locked him up for the night, unknown to billy, the sheriff wasn't planning to charge him, just give him an object lesson, billy didnt want to be locked up, and broke out, the rest is history