September 23: Day of the Week
September 23, 2022 is the 266th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 99 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
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Here’s the September calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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September 23: This Day in History
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
September 23 Historical Event(s)
- 1642First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
- 1857The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
- 1908University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
- 1909The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
- 1952Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech”.
- 1959Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
- 1973Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1983Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
- 1999Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
- 1999NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Who were born on September 23?
- 1647Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
- 1895Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1911Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
- 1926Jimmy Woode, jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- 1930Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
- 1941Norma Winstone, British jazz singer and lyricist
- 1945Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
- 1956Peter David, American writer
- 1961Chi McBride, American actor
- 1964Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
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