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Events on September 23

• 1122 With the Concordat of Worms between Emperor Henry V and Pope Callixtus II, the Investiture Controversy is settled.
• 1846 Johann Gottfried Galle, assisted by Heinrich Louis d’Arrest, discovers the planet Neptune at the position calculated by Urbain Le Verrier.
• 1862 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Prussian Minister-President during the Prussian Constitutional Conflict.
• 1889 The company Nintendo is founded by Yamauchi Fusajirō in Kyōto to produce Hanafuda playing cards.
• 1955 Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer proclaims the Hallstein Doctrine, which states that the establishment of diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by third countries is regarded as an “unfriendly act” toward the Federal Republic.
• 1963 The premiere of the film The Silence by Ingmar Bergman becomes a scandal due to sexual depictions.
• 1980 Bob Marley performs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the last time.
• 1983 The German AIDS Aid registered association (DAH) is founded in Berlin.
• 1983 The South African Gerrie Coetzee unexpectedly wins his boxing match against Michael Dokes and becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion. Coetzee is here the first titleholder from Africa in the history of boxing.
• 1999 As a result of a navigation error, radio contact with the NASA spacecraft Mars Climate Orbiter is permanently lost.
• 2002 The first version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is released worldwide under the provisional name Phoenix.
• 2011 Pope Benedict XVI visits the Erfurt Augustinian Monastery, where Martin Luther lived as a monk between 1505 and 1512.

Born on September 23

• 1861 Robert Bosch, German entrepreneur
• 1890 Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal
• 1920 Mickey Rooney, US-American actor
• 1930 Ray Charles, US-American singer
• 1934 Per Olov Enquist, Swedish author
• 1950 Ilona Grübel, German actress
• 1970 Christina Große, German actress
• 1981 Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
• 1982 Sarah Tacke, German journalist and television presenter
• 1991 Kevin Vogt, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „23. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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