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• ...that Catherine the Great (pictured) and other leaders of the Russian Enlightenment promoted further Europeanization of all aspects of Russian life?
• ...that jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity?
• ...that St. Nilus reportedly foretold to princess Aloara of Capua, for her part in the murder of her husband's nephew, that none of her offspring should reign in Capua—a prophecy that came true in 999?
• ...that between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non-ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship, 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
• ... that George J. Adler, one of the greatest linguists of the 19th century, went insane from the effort of publishing his Dictionary of German and English Languages?
• ...that the Queen Elizabeth Walk in Singapore was built on reclaimed land in 1922 and that it was renamed in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom?

• Yahya Jammeh (pictured) is re-elected for a third term as President of the Gambia.
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves is elected the new President of Estonia.
• Tainted spinach from California causes at least 165 people in the United States to fall ill, including 27 cases of renal failure with hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
• A magnetic levitation train accident kills at least 23 people in Lathen, Germany.
• General Sonthi Boonyaratglin leads a coup d'état in Thailand to depose the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
• Anti-government protests in Budapest turn violent, after Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány of Hungary admits his party lied to win an election.

September 23: Vernal or Autumnal Equinox at 04:03 UTC in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, respectively; Ramadan begins at sunset (Islam, 2006).

• 1459 - Yorkist forces led by Richard Neville won the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, the first major battle of the Wars of the Roses.
• 1845 - Origins of baseball: Alexander Cartwright organized the first "base ball" team, the New York Knickerbockers.
• 1846 - The planet Neptune was discovered by astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, Johann Gottfried Galle and John Couch Adams.
• 1868 - Ramón Emeterio Betances (pictured) led the Grito de Lares, a revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.
• 1932 - Hejaz and Nejd were merged and renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with Ibn Saud as the first monarch and Riyadh as the capital city.

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