September 23 is day 266 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 47, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.15.7 by the Mayan Long Count
-On this day in history:
-On September 23, 1338, the first naval battle of the hundred years' war, the Battle of Arnemuiden, occurred. Big whoop, but - it was the first known naval battle to involve gunpowder based artillery. Five, count 'em, five, English cogs were set upon by a huge French fleet. One English ship had 3 cannons and a hand gun, but they were merchant ships. Insofar as they were set upon by a sizable French fleet, we must assume that those were the equivalent of warships. After an entire day's combat, the French forced the English to surrender, captured the English ships and their cargo, and slaughtered all of the surviving crewmen. Total English fatalities were 1,000, to a mere 900 for the French. The war continued for well over 100 years, nonetheless. .
-1779brought us a more famous naval battle, though not necessarily by name, Battle of Flamborough Head. This was the famous ship to ship duel between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis in which John Paul Jones declared that he had not yet begun to fight and which he eventually won. Cannons were de rigeur by this time, though two of Jones' 18 pounders exploded killing those nearby, causing Jones to abandon the use of an entire battery of 6 of them. This was a classic pyrrhic victory in many ways, but Jones won the battle and fame sufficient that in his later years he was hired by none other than Catherine the Great as a rear admiral in the Black Sea.
-Neptune was discovered on this day in 1846, but nobody was able to plant a flag on it so it remained unclaimed.
-Nintendo was founded in 1889.
-1911 saw the first official airmail delivery.
-The first flight across the Mediterranean took place in 1913.
-In 1932 the unification of Saudi Arabia was finally completed.
-The first public version of Mozilla Firefox was released in 2002.
-Born this day in: 1215 – Kublai Khan, emperor and builder of Xanadu's pleasure dome. 1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, author 1851 – Ellen Hayes, a mathematician and astronomer who was controversial for being female, questioning the bible, wearing comfortable, utilitarian clothing, and supporting such things as suffrage, temperance, at least one labor strike, socialism and Sacco & Vanzetti 1863 – Mary Church Terrell, author, and activist 1867 – John Lomax, musicologist, teacher, and folklorist 1889 – Walter Lippmann, journalist and publisher, founder of The New Republic 1907 – Tiny Bradshaw, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1926 – John Coltrane, saxophonist and composer 1928 – Frank Foster, saxophonist and composer 1930 – Ray Charles, singer, songwriter, pianist, and actor 1935 – Les McCann, singer and pianist 1939 – Roy Buchanan, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1941 – George Jackson, activist and author 1943 – Julio Iglesias, singer and songwriter 1944 – Eric Bogle, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1945 – Ron Bushy, drummer 1947 – Don Grolnick, pianist and composer 1947 – Neal Smith, drummer and songwriter 1948 – Dan Toler, guitarist 1949 – Bruce Springsteen, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1950 – George Garzone, saxophonist and educator 1951 – Steven Springer, guitarist and songwriter
- -Died this day in: 0965 – Al-Mutanabbi, poet 1241 – Snorri Sturluson, historian, poet, and politician 1877 – Urbain Le Verrier, mathematician and astronomer who predicted the existence and location of Neptune 1939 – Sigmund Freud, neurologist, misogynist, quack, and author 1974 – Robbie McIntosh, drummer 2006 – Etta Baker, singer and guitarist 2013 – Ruth Patrick, botanist and immunologist 2017 – Charles Bradley, singer
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