THIS DAY IN HISTORY, SEPTEMBER

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


On this day in history, 23rd September...
1568 - Battle of San Juan de Ulúa, near present day Veracruz, Mexico, between Spanish forces and English privateers led by John Hawkins. The Spanish forces were victorious.
1571 - Death of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, at Monkton Farleigh Manor after being taken ill while preaching a sermon in Lacock, Wiltshire. He was laid to rest in Salisbury Cathedral.
1605 - Burial of William Averell, pamphleteer, at St Peter's Cornhill.

A few of the great historical events that happened in history, September 22nd!

1656	The General Provincial Court in session at Patuxent, Maryland, impanels the first all-woman jury in the Colonies to hear evidence against Judith Catchpole, who is accused of murdering her child. The jury acquits her after hearing her defense of never having been pregnant.
1711	The Tuscarora Indian War begins with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children.
1761	Britain’s King George III and his wife, Charlotte, were crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1776	American Captain Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British in New York City; his last words are reputed to have been, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
1789	Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov drive the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha from the Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia.
1792	The first French Republic was proclaimed.
1862	President Lincoln issues a proclamation calling for all slaves within the rebel states to be freed on January 1, a political move that helps keep the British from intervening on the side of the South.
1864	Union General Philip Sheridan defeats Confederate General Jubal Early’s troops at the Battle of Fisher’s Hill in Virginia.
1869	The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrive in San Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
1893	Bicycle makers Charles and Frank Duryea show off the first American automobile produced for sale to the public by taking it on a maiden run through the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
1906	Race riots in Atlanta, Georgia leave 21 people dead.
1914	The German cruiser Emden shells Madras, India, destroying 346,000 gallons of fuel and killing only five civilians.
1915	Xavier University, the first African-American Catholic college, opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1918	General Allenby leads the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa and Nazareth, Palestine.
1919	President Woodrow Wilson abandons his national tour to support the League of Nations when he suffers a case of nervous exhaustion.
1927	Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the “long count” fight in Chicago.
1929	Communist and Nazi factions clash in Berlin.
1945	President Truman accepts U.S. Secretary of War Stimson’s recommendation to designate the war World War II.
1947	A Douglas C-54 Skymaster makes the first automatic pilot flight over the Atlantic.
1949	The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1961	President John Kennedy signs a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps.
1964	The musical “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
1969	Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs.
1970	President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress.
1975	Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, the second attempt on his life in less than three weeks.
1980	The Iran-Iraq War begins as Iraq invades Iran; lasting until August 1988, it was the longest conventional war of the 20th century.
1989	Songwriter Irving Berlin died at age 101.
1991	Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
1995	Time Warner struck a $7.5 billion deal to buy Turner Broadcasting System Inc.