WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. SEPTEMBER
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Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia). (23. September 1913)

The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (23. September 1932)

First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team. (23. September 1936)

Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis. (23. September 1938)

World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River. (23. September 1942)

World War II: The Nazi puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded. (23. September 1943)

Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurred. (23. September 1950)

Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech". (23. September 1952)

Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. (23. September 1959)

The MS Princess of Tasmania, Australia's first passenger roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait. (23. September 1959)

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City. (23. September 1962)

The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago. (23. September 1969)

Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina. (23. September 1973)

Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations. (23. September 1983)

Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion. (23. September 1983)

Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board. (23. September 1983)

Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets the major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. (23. September 1986)

José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club. (23. September 1988)

A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys forensic laboratories in Belfast. (23. September 1992)

Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States. (23. September 1999)