Today in History - onthisday.com

Sept 23

1122 Concordat of Worms is agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V 

1779 After refusing to surrender, John Paul Jones, the father of the US Navy, achieved a dramatic against-the-odds victory against the British

1821 Fall of Tripolitsa: Greek forces massacre 6,000 to 15,000 Muslim and Jewish civilians during the Greek War of Independence 

1845 The first baseball team, the New York Knickerbockers, organizes and adopts a rulebook, known as the Knickerbocker Rules

1862 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by King Wilhelm I 

1884 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, beginning the era of data processing

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

1938 Time capsule to be opened in the year 6939 is buried at the World's Fair in NYC; it contains a woman's hat, a man's pipe, and 1,100 feet of microfilm

1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support the integration of nine Black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas after a white mob forces them to withdraw 

1957 "That'll Be the Day" single by Buddy Holly and The Crickets reaches #1 in the US

1962 ABC's first color TV series, "The Jetsons," created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres

2002 First version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox, dubbed Phoenix 0.1, is released to the public

2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare," a free healthcare program for 500 million people, the world's largest healthcare initiative