Wednesday, September 23rd
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Today's Highlights in History
On Sept. 23, 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the ``Checkers'' speech as he denied allegations of improper campaign financing. (Go to article.)
On Sept. 23, 1838, Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin, who ran for United States president in 1872, was born. Following her death on June 9, 1927, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On September 23, 1899, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Dreyfus Affair. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
On this date in:
63 B.C. Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., held its first commencement.
1779 American commander John Paul Jones is said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a Revolutionary War naval battle.
1806 The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1846 The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1926 Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, N.C.
1930 Musician Ray Charles was born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Ga.
1939 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died at age 83.
1957 Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1973 Former Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power.
1987 Choreographer-director Bob Fosse died at age 60.
1990 Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.
1999 The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.
Current Birthdays
Bruce Springsteen turns 60 years old today.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Rock musician Bruce Springsteen turns 60 years old today.
89 Mickey Rooney
Actor
86 Margaret Pellegrini
Actress ("The Wizard of Oz")
68 Navi Pillay
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
66 Julio Iglesias
Singer
66 Marty Schottenheimer
Football cooach
64 Paul Petersen
Actor ("The Donna Reed Show")
62 Mary Kay Place
Actress
54 Leon Taylor
Rock musician (The Ventures)
52 Rosalind Chao
Actress
51 Marvin Lewis
Football cooach
50 Jason Alexander
Actor ("Seinfeld")
48 Chi McBride
Actor
48 Elizabeth Pena
Actress
47 John Harbaugh
Football cooach
47 Don Herron
Country musician (BR549)
45 Erik Todd Dellums
Actor
43 LisaRaye
Actress
39 Ani DiFranco
Rock singer
37 Sarah Bettens
Rock singer (K's Choice)
37 Jermaine Dupri
Rapper, producer
33 Kip Pardue
Actress
29 Aubrey Dollar
Actress
24 Joba Chamberlain
Baseball player
18 Melanie Oudin
Tennis player
Historic Birthdays
Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin
9/23/1838 - 6/9/1927
American women's rights advocate
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75 Caesar Augustus
9/23/63 BC - 8/19/14 AD
lst Roman emperor
72 William McGuffey
9/23/1800 - 5/4/1873
American educator; published popular elementary school readers
54 Helen Almira Shafer
9/23/1839 - 1/20/1894
American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94)
80 Robert Bosch
9/23/1861 - 3/9/1942
German engineer and industrialist
90 Mary Eliza Terrell
9/23/1863 - 7/24/1954
American social activist and civil rights advocate
82 Emmuska Orczy
9/23/1865 - 11/12/1947
Hungarian-born English novelist; wrote "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
85 Walter Lippmann
9/23/1889 - 12/14/1974
American newspaper commentator and author
77 Tom C. Clark
9/23/1899 - 6/13/1977
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
61 Aldo Moro
9/23/1916 - 5/9/1978
Italian five times premier; murdered by terrorists
40 John Coltrane
9/23/1926 - 7/17/1967
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
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