#TodayInHistory – September 23
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September 23 – Some importants events on this day
1122 ๐๐ผ Concordat of Worms agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V
1408 ๐๐ผ Battle of Othรฉe: victory of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy over Liรจge.
1459 ๐๐ผ Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, 1st major battle of the English Wars of the Roses
1821 ๐๐ผ Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
1846 ๐๐ผ German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory.
1862 ๐๐ผ Otto von Bismarck appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I
1875 ๐๐ผ Billy the Kid arrested for first time
On this day, outlaw Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.
1884 ๐๐ผ American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing
1889 ๐๐ผ Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
1908 ๐๐ผ University of Alberta opens
1938 ๐๐ผ Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe & 1,100′ of microfilm)
1957 ๐๐ผ President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
1962 ๐๐ผ ABC’s 1st color TV series – The Jetsons by Hanna-Barbera first broadcast
1971 ๐๐ผ Jan Vermeer’s painting “The Love Letter” is stolen from The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels by a 21 year old thief
2002 ๐๐ผ The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released
2018 ๐๐ผ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches “Modicare”, free heathcare for 500 million, world’s biggest healthcare program