Day's Calendar – September 23

The 267th day of the year; 99 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of the Holy Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora (305–311); the Apostles Apelles, Lucius, and Clement—of the Seventy (1st century); Martyr Varipsavas (2nd century); the Pious Greek Empress Pulcheria (453); and Saints Peter and Paul—Bishops of Nicaea (9th century).

Born:

63 BC – Gaius Augustus, Roman Emperor. Died in 14 AD.

1900 – Veriko Anjaparidze, actress. Died in 1987.

1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet and Nobel Prize laureate. Died in 1987.

1943 – Julio Iglesias, famous Spanish singer.

Died:

1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer.

1870 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer.

1889 – Wilkie Collins, English writer.

1928 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar traveler and explorer. 1939 — Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and psychoanalyst.

1973 — Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet.

Events:

1733 — The Hermitage Theatre opened in Saint Petersburg.

1846 — German astronomer Johann Galle discovered the eighth planet of the solar system, Neptune.

1857 — The Russian ship Lefort sank in the Gulf of Finland; 826 people perished.

1991 — Armenia declared independence.

1999 — Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of the Soviet Union's first and last president Mikhail Gorbachev, was laid to rest.

Observances:

Autumnal Equinox.

World Maritime Day.

Saudi Arabia — Saudi National Day (Unification of the Kingdom).

Lithuania — Day of the Victims of Genocide.