Unix Timestamp: 1095897600
Thursday, September 23. 2004, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The multi-billion dollar King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, boasting one of the world's fastest supercomputers, opens near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to enable the country to compete in science and technology internationally. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8270601.stm (BBC)

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva is shut down until the northern spring while engineers probe magnet failures. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7632408.stm (BBC News)

Convicted bank thief and Boricua Popular Army leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, when members of the FBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.

California recall: An 11-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturns the earlier ruling of a three-judge panel and reinstates October 7 as the date of the California gubernatorial recall election. The American Civil Liberties Union, whose suit was responsible for the original decision, will not appeal to the Supreme Court. //www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/2003-09-23-court-rules_x.htm

The Methuselah Foundation launches the Methuselah mouse contest, offering a prize to the team which can extend mouse lifespan the longest. The aim is to promote research which can offer insights into human longevity.

Belgium is the second European country (after the Netherlands) to legalise euthanasia.

Argentine national Guillermo Bill Gaede is arrested in Phoenix, Arizona on charges of industrial espionage. His sales to Cuba, China, North Korea and Iran are believed to have involved Intel and AMD trade secrets worth US$10–20 million.

The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.

United Nations Special Commission inspectors discover secret Iraqi documents in Baghdad detailing plans to make nuclear weapons, but the Iraqi Army forcibly remove the documents from the inspectors.

A cease-fire in the Lebanese Civil War stops the violence that had killed 900 people since March.

Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.

Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.

Ceefax (one of the first public service information systems) is started by the BBC.

The Oakland Raiders defeat the Miami Dolphins 12-7, ending the Dolphins unbeaten streak at 18. It was the Miami Dolphins' first loss since January 16, 1972 in Super Bowl VI.

The first women's only tennis tournament begins in Houston, known as the Houston Women's Invitation.

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford opens to limited release in the U.S.

King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.

The "M/S Princess of Tasmania" (Australia's first passenger RO/RO dieselferry) makes its maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.

The Academy Award-winning movie "The Three Faces of Eve" is released.

Alec Guinness meets the actor James Dean. Guinness supposedly has a premonition of Dean's death.

U.S. Harry S. Truman announced that the USSR had the atomic bomb

WWII: The Republic of Salò is founded.

The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolishes all types of slavery.

William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey and becomes heavyweight chion of the world.

French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.

The Bahá'í Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

The Bahá\'í Faith is first publicly mentioned in the United States at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

The "Nintendo" Koppai (Later "Nintendo" Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market Hanafudaplaying cards.

Rebels (some 400–600) in the town of Lares declare Puerto Rico independent the local militia easily defeats them a week later.

Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d\'Arrest as predicted by the British astronomer John Couch Adams and the French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.

Discovery of Neptune: The planet is observed for the first time by German astronomers Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest as predicted by the British astronomer John Couch Adams and the French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier.

First Burmese War: Burmese attack the British on Shapura, an island close to Chittagong.

Greek War of Independence: Siege of Tripolitsa ends when Greek rebels massacre all 35,000 Turkish and Jewish inhabitants of Tripoli, Greece.

Border markers are formally installed for the European territory of Moresnet.

The Great September Gale of 1815 is the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years.

October ndash Robert Adams, American sailor and first white man to visit Timbuktu, was found wandering the streets of London, starving and half-naked. His discovery was significant because it led to the invitation for him to tell his story as a Barbary captive, which later was published as "The Narrative of Robert Adams".

The Republic of West Florida declares independence from Spain.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches St. Louis, Missouri, ending a successful exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the Pacific Northwest.

Battle of Assaye (India): British-led troops defeat Maratha forces.

American Revolution ndash Battle of Flamborough Head: The American ship "Bonhomme Richard", commanded by John Paul Jones, engages the British ship "Serapis". The "Bonhomme Richard" sinks, but the Americans board the "Serapis" and other vessels, and are victorious.

The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and bans the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.

Turkish units burn the eastern part of Kolárovo.

Chinese Kangxi Emperor allows coastal residents deported in 1662 to return home.

Shakushain's Revolt breaks out in Hokkaido, Japan

Okaya Co., Ltd., is founded in Nagoya, Japan.

Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.

Leopold IHabsburg grants the status and privileges of a university to the JesuitAcademy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb.

Shakushain\'s Revolt breaks out in Hokkaido, Japan

Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people.

The Chinese herbal medicine company Tongrentang, or 同仁堂 in Chinese, is established.

Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin.

Jan Swammerdam publishes his "Algemeene Verhandeling van de bloedeloose dierkens", a groundbreaking work in microscopy as well as entomology

Treaty of Busza between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Sadians consolidate their power in Morocco by defeating the last of their enemies.

Vienna is besieged by the Turkish forces of Suleiman.

Battle of Blore Heath: Yorkists under the Earl of Salisbury defeat a Lancastrian force.

Dan I of Wallachia (now southern Romania) is killed in battle against the Bulgarians and is succeeded by Mircea the Old.

Kashmir is conquered by Muslims.

All streets in the city of Florence are paved, making it the first European city to do so.

Emperor Go-Murakami accedes to the throne of Japan.

The Kremlin in Moscow is built.

Simone Boccanegra is elected as the first Doge of Genoa.

at the death of William II, his adversary in the investiture controversy, Anselm, the exiled archbishop of Canterbury returns to England.