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September 23

Today is Celebrate Bisexuality Day. So, Cellar guys, go find a pole. Cellar ladies, go talk to that little man in that boat. Tell him I said hello, and I miss him. And take pictures. Lots and lots of pictures.

1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christopher had three cannon and one hand gun.

1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, takes place.

1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds (<--I wonder if that means weight, or currency) of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.

1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.

1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head. Jones later takes up bass guitar.

1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department.

1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert, in Pittsburgh.

1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.

2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

Births

63 BC – Augustus; 1215 – Kublai Khan; 1861 – Robert Bosch (founded Robert Bosch GmbH); 1897 – Walter Pidgeon; 1920 – Mickey Rooney; 1926 – John Coltrane; 1927 – Mighty Joe Young; 1930 – Ray Charles; 1931 – Hilly Kristal (founded club CBGB); 1938 – Romy Schneider; 1939 – Roy Buchanan; 1943 – Julio Iglesias♪ ♫; 1943 – Marty Schottenheimer; 1945 – Ron Bushy(Iron Butterfly); 1947 – Mary Kay Place; 1947 – Neal Smith(Alice Cooper); 1949 – Jerry B. Jenkins, Bruce Springsteen♪ ♫; 1957 – Rosalind Chao; 1958 – Larry Mize; 1959 – Jason Alexander ('George' on Seinfeld); 1961 – Chi McBride; 1970 – Ani DiFranco♪ ♫; 1978 – Anthony Mackie

Deaths

1900 – William Marsh Rice (founded Rice University); 1939 – Sigmund Freud; 1974 – Robbie McIntosh(Average White Band); 1981 – Chief Dan George (The Outlaw Josey Wales); 1987 – Bob Fosse; 1998 – Mary Frann