Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 23

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  Concordat of Worms
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  Richard Nixon delivering the Checkers speech
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  Ramon Betances
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  Ramón Emeterio Betances
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  Neptune
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  Nintendo headquarters, 1889

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National Day in Saudi Arabia (1932)	both "National Day" article and the country itself are orange tagged
1459 – Yorkist forces led by Richard Neville defeated Lancastrian troops at the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, a major battle of the Wars of the Roses.	refimprove section
1779 – American Revolutionary War: John Paul Jones led a Franco-American squadron to victory in the Battle of Flamborough Head, one of the most celebrated naval actions of the war.	rewrite, primary
1821 – Greek War of Independence: Greek rebels captured Tripolitsa after a five-month siege and began a massacre of Muslim and Jewish residents.	needs more footnotes (9 {cn} tags)
1845 – American bookseller Alexander Cartwright founded the New York Knickerbockers, one of the first organized baseball teams.	refimprove
1846 – Using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe Neptune and recognise it as a hitherto unknown planet.	lots of CN tags (7)
1868 – Ramón Emeterio Betances led the Grito de Lares, a revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.	needs more footnotes
1889 – Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo in Kyoto, Japan (original headquarters pictured), to produce handmade hanafuda playing cards.	Citation problems
1899 – Philippine–American War: The American Asiatic Squadron destroyed a Filipino artillery battery in Olongapo.	one source
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merged with Al-Hasa and Qatif to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with Ibn Saud as the first monarch and Riyadh as the capital city.	refimprove
1983 – A bomb placed by the Abu Nidal organisation destroyed Gulf Air Flight 771, flying from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, killing all 112 people aboard.	expansion
Francesco Barberini |b|1597|	lots of citations needed (7)
Vincenzo Bellini |d|1835|	Heaps of unsourced paras
El Santo |b|1917	refimprove section
John Coltrane |b|1926|	Too much uncited
Bruce Springsteen |b|1949	refimprove

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• 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman emperor Henry V agreed the Concordat of Worms (pictured), ending the Investiture Controversy.
• 1642 – First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ended in a Royalist victory.
• 1803 – Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
• 1884 – The French steamship Arctique ran aground on the northern coast of Cape Virgenes in Argentina; gold was discovered during the rescue effort, triggering the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.
• 1920 – The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.
• 1952 – U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech, one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.
• 2010 – Teresa Lewis became 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 via lethal injection.
• 2016 – Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany.
• Born this day: | Augustus |b|63 BC| Eleonora Gonzaga |b|1598| Joseph Dudley |b|1647| Sir Richard Hughes, 1st Baronet |d|1779| Émilie Gamelin |d|1851| Paul Delvaux |b|1897| Louise Nevelson |b|1899| Omar Ali Saifuddien III |b|1914| Zdenko Blažeković |b|1915| Werner Voss |d|1917| Ambroise Noumazalaye |b|1933| Ray Charles |b|1930| Leonard Lopate |b|1940| Kostas Tournas |b|1949| Cherie Blair |b|1954| Michiru Yamane |b|1963| Sean Spicer |b|1971| Anthony Mackie |b|1978|

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• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army general Benedict Arnold (pictured) to hand over West Point, New York.
• 1913 – The United Mine Workers of America begin a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, sparking the Colorado Coalfield War.
• 2002 – The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by the Mozilla Organization.
• 2008 – A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before committing suicide.
• 2019 – The British travel company Thomas Cook Group ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving around 600,000 tourists stranded around the world.