September 23 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for September 23
In the headlines today:

2003	AMD introduces the Athlon 64, the first Windows-compatible 64-bit PC processor, at a launch party in San Francisco.
1999	NASA announces that contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter is lost as the craft was preparing to orbit the planet.
1983	Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
1973	Juan Peron returns to Argentina as president.
1968	The Beatles begin recording Happiness Is A Warm Gun, a song that will ultimately appear on the White Album, at Abbey Road Studios in London. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1962	Philharmonic Hall becomes the first part of the new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to open in New York City.
1952	Rocky Marciano knocks out 'Jersey' Joe Walcott to become the world heavyweight boxing champ. This is also the first-ever pay-TV event, broadcast to theatres across the US.
1939	Psychologist Sigmund Freud dies in London.
1873	The Detroit News newspaper is founded.
1846	German astronomer Johann Galle discovers the planet Neptune.
1845	The first pro baseball team, the Knickerbocker Baseball Club, is founded in New York City
1806	Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest.
1779	"I have not yet begun to fight!" shouts John Paul Jones, commanding the US warship Bonhomme Richard, when asked if he was prepared to surrender to the British.
1642	The first commencement exercises occur at Harvard.