Historical Events -  September 23

1803– Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

1846– Urban Lee Warrier discovered the planet Neptune. It is the first planet to be discovered by mathematical arithmetic.

1905– Norway and Sweden, previously united, decided to secede through the Karlstad Agreement.

1908– Establishment of the University of Alberta in Canada.

1932– The Hejaz and Nejd kingdoms have renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1974– The world’s first Ceefax Teletext service began on BBC television in Britain.

2002– The first version of the Mozilla Firefox browser released.

2010– The world’s biggest wind farm was inaugurated off the UK coast in Thanet, Kent.

 

Famous Birthdays – September 23

63 BC – Gaius Octavius Caesar, first Roman emperor, the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar.

1215 – Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor.

1819 – Armand Hippolyte, French physicist who first measured the speed of light.

1861 – Robert Bosch, founder of the Bosch Company.

1892 – Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, a Muslim Hanafi scholar, religious and political leader from the Indian subcontinent.

1903 – Yusuf Meher Ali, a socialist leader, and freedom fighter.

1908 – Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, a patriot and Hindi poet. He is considered one of the most important modern Hindi poets.

1911 – Rappal Sangameshwar Krishnan, an Indian physicist.

1917 – Asima Chatterjee, an Indian chemist.

1935 – Prem Chopra, Indian actor.

1943 – Tanuja, Indian actress.

1950 – Dr. Abhay Bang, Indian Sociologist. He predominantly works for the upliftment of Adivasi people in Maharashtra state.

1957 – Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood songs.

 

Death Anniversaries – September 23

1858 – Grant Duff, a British soldier and historian from Scotland who wrote the history of the Marathas.

1870 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer, historian, and archaeologist.

1882 – Friedrich Wohler, German chemist. He was the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the first to prepare several inorganic compounds including silane and silicon nitride.

1939 – Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Considers as the father of modern psychology.

2004 – Dr. Death of Raja Ramanna, Indian scientist, 4th Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.