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On This Day In History for September 23, 2020
This is the 267th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining in 2020.
- It was on this date in 1642, that The first commencement exercises occurred at Harvard College.
- That same date in 1806, Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 175 years ago today, The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, was founded in New York.
- September 23, 1846, Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborated on the discovery of Neptune.
- Also on September 23, 1889, Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
- It was 109 years ago today that Pilot Earle Ovington made the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department.
- Roland Garros of France became the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia) on this date in 1913.
- That same date in 2002, The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) was released.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- German astronomer and academic, Johann Franz Encke, born on this date in 1791.
- Hippolyte Fizeau, the French physicist and academic was born 201 years ago today.
- Born September 23, 1851, American mathematician and astronomer Ellen Hayes.
- German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert Bosch was born 159 years ago today.
- Miron Merzhanov, Russian architect and engineer was born on that same date in 1895.
- Born September 23, 1902, Chinese mathematician and academic Su Buqing.
- Clifford Shull, the American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 105 years ago today.
- American actor, singer, director, and producer, Mickey Rooney, born on this date in 1920.
- André Cassagnes, the French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch was born 94 years ago today.
- American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor, Ray Charles, born on this date in 1930.
- Also turning 77 today is Spanish singer-songwriter Julio Iglesias.
- American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Bruce Springsteen, born on this date in 1949.
- Also turning 63 today is American actress Rosalind Chao.
- American actor, singer, and voice artist, Jason Alexander, born on this date in 1959.
Listener Birthdays
- 26 – Brett (from Wales)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 23, 2020
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Hacks & Strange Stories
- A 3.2 Billion Pixel Camera Takes A Picture Of Broccoli : NPR
- Commodore 64 Mini Man Makes Matching Mini Monitor | Hackaday
- TOBOT Is Your Tic Tac Toe Opponent With A Bad Attitude | Hackaday
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- Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ Is Now an Uber Driver
- This game of Dungeons & Dragons has been going on for 38 years – CNN
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Geek Library
- (Time Permitting) Is the Internet Conscious? If It Were, How Would We Know? | WIRED
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