A bit of September 23rd history…
1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
1780 - British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold’s plot to betray West Point (pictured)
1846 - Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest find Neptune
1884 - American Herman Hollerith patents his Mechanical Tabulating Machine, the beginning of data processing
1932 - Abdulaziz Ibn Saud merges the kingdoms of Nejd and Hejaz into the kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1950 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ralph Bunche for mediation in Israel - 1st African-American winner
1962 - ABC’s 1st color TV series, The Jetsons, premiers
2018 - Japan’s space agency is 1st to place 2 robotic explorers on an asteroid - Ryugu - from it’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft
2018 - Mud volcano, the Otman-Bozdag, erupts 980 ft high in Azerbaijan
A bit of September 23rd history… 1561 - King Philip II of Spain...