Summary of the Day ✨ 23 September (23/09)
On a day of global turmoil, Israel’s deadly airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon left over 490 dead while sham referendums in occupied Ukraine led to Russia’s annexation of four oblasts, sparking international condemnation. Simultaneously, protests erupted across the U.S. after a grand jury declined to indict police in Breonna Taylor’s case, while Papua and West Papua saw deadly riots over a racist incident and Typhoon Usagi claimed 25 lives in Hong Kong and China.
Historical Events 📜
- 2024: Israel launches airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing more than 490 people.
- 2022: Voting begins in the five-day sham annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine, leading to Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
- 2020: A grand jury in Kentucky declines to indict three police officers for the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in a drug raid gone wrong, leading to nationwide protests in the U.S.
- 2019: Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.
- 2013: Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.
- 2010: Teresa Lewis becomes the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.
- 2008: Matti Saari kills ten people at a school in Finland before committing suicide.
- 2004: Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
- 1999: Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.
- 1983: Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 112 people on board.
- 1973: Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1967: Seven people die, 46 people are injured, and more than 150 boats capsize when a squall hits Lake Michigan during Michigan’s first coho salmon sport fishing season.
- 1964: Typhoon Wilda, one of the strongest typhoons to ever strike Japan, makes landfall, causing at least 30 fatalities and sinking at least 64 ships.
- 1962: Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic Ocean killing 28 out the 76 occupants onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.
- 1961: U.S. President John F. Kennedy nominates African American civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although pro-segregation Southern senators manage to delay his confirmation until September 11, 1962.
Famous Births 👶
- 2001: Lai Kuan-lin, Taiwanese film director
- 1999: Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer
- 1997: John Collins, American basketball player
- 1996: Napheesa Collier, American basketball player
- 1994: Lee Mi-joo, South Korean singer and entertainer
- 1994: Bai Lu, Chinese Actress
- 1993: Petteri Lindbohm, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1992: Angel Garza, Mexican wrestler
- 1991: Lee Alexander, Scottish footballer
- 1991: Key, South Korean singer and entertainer
- 1991: Melanie Oudin, American tennis player
- 1989: Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
- 1989: Taniela Lasalo, Australian rugby league player
- 1988: Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player
- 1988: Kairi Sane, Japanese wrestler
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2021: John Elliott, Australian businessman (born 1941)
- 2021: Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver (born 1933)
- 2020: Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress (born 1927)
- 2018: Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (born 1933)
- 2018: Gary Kurtz, American film producer (born 1940)
- 2018: Jane Fortune, American author, journalist, and philanthropist (born 1942)
- 2015: Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (born 1930)
- 2014: A. W. Davis, American basketball player and coach (born 1943)
- 2014: Irven DeVore, American anthropologist and biologist (born 1934)
- 2014: Don Manoukian, American football player and wrestler (born 1934)
- 2014: Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee (born 1913)
- 2013: Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)
- 2013: Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)
- 2013: Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907)
- 2012: Henry Champ, Canadian journalist and academic (born 1937)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Adomnán - Christian feast day:
Cissa of Crowland (or of Northumbria) - Christian feast day:
Blessed Francisco de Paula Victor - Christian feast day:
Padre Pio - Christian feast day:
Pope Linus - Christian feast day:
Sossius - Christian feast day:
Thecla (Roman Catholic Church) - Christian feast day:
Xanthippe and Polyxena - Christian feast day:
September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
- Haifa Day (Israel)
- Holocaust Memorial Day (Lithuania)
- Kyrgyz Language Day (Kyrgyzstan)
- National Day (Saudi Arabia)
- Teachers’ Day (Brunei)