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About September 23rd is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. September 23rd is Celebrate Bisexuality Day. Births 1930 - Ray Charles, musician, singer 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, musician, singer (Born in the U.S.A.) 1959 - Jason Alexander, actor, comedian (Seinfeld) 1974 - Matt Hardy, professional wrestler Deaths 1900 - William Marsh Rice, businessman, philanthropist, founded Rice University 1994 - Robert Bloch, writer (Psycho) Events 1806 - The Lewis and Clark expedition returns back to St. Louis from the Pacific Coast. 1846 - German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory in Germany. 1897 - Nine-year-old Stephen Kempton becomes the first recorded traffic fatality in Great Britain, two years before a traffic fatality in America, when he got trapped underneath the wheel of the vehicle. |
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