September 23<\/p>\n
1215 \u2013 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan is born in Mongolia.<\/p>\n
1338 \u2013 A naval battle during the ‘Hundred Years War’ off the North Sea coast of modern Belgium between French and English fleets is the first in which gunpowder artillery is used<\/p>\n
1779 \u2013 Aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard<\/em>, Captain John Paul Jones, as Commodore of a combined French and American squadron, engages and captures the British ship HMS Serapis<\/em> near Flamborough Head off the coast of Yorkshire.<\/p>\n 1780 \u2013 British Major John Andr\u00e9 is arrested as a spy by American soldiers, exposing Benedict Arnold’s treason.<\/p>\n 1806 \u2013 Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery Expedition return to St. Louis from exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013 At the Berlin Observatory, European astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 The game manufacturer Nintendo Koppai is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, in Kyoto.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 During the Philippine\u2013American War, the American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino coastal battery at Olongapo, which had been harassing U.S. shipping, in Subic Bay, Luzon island.<\/p>\n 1911 \u2013 Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 On Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines begin an attack on Japanese units along the Matanikau River<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 During the Battle of Hill 282 in the Korean War, British troops of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mistakenly come under fire from U.S. Air Force F-51 Mustangs of the 18th Fighter Bomber Wing. The first ‘friendly fire’ incident of the war.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Chief Dan George dies in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Author Glendon Swarthout, dies of emphysema in his home in Scottsdale, Arizona.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox -Phoenix 0.1- is released.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 American film director and producer Gary Kurtz dies, age 78, in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 23 1215 \u2013 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan is born in Mongolia. 1338 \u2013 A naval battle during the ‘Hundred Years War’ off the North Sea coast of modern Belgium between French and English fleets is the first in which gunpowder artillery is used 1779 \u2013 Aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, Captain John … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59917"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96227,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59917\/revisions\/96227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}