^B{^#!16!23 September^N! National Day of Saudi Arabia. Feast day of Saints Andrew, John, Peter and Antony, and St Adamnan or Eunan of Iona.
^B{480 BC^B} The Persians were defeated by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis. ^B{1779^B} In the Revolutionary War, a French and American fleet commanded by John Paul Jones, captured the British ship Serapis in the Battle of Flamborough Head. ^B{1803^B} The British under Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) defeated Scindia and the Rajah of Berar at Assaye in India. ^B{1846^B} German astronomer Johann Galle discovered the planet Neptune. ^B{1848^B} Chewing gum was first commercially produced in the US by John Curtis in his home, and was called 'State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'. ^B{1912^B} ^I{Cohen Collects a Debt^I}, the first of US film producer Mack Sennet's silent Keystone Cops films, was released. ^B{1940^B} The George Cross and the George Medal for civilian acts of courage were instituted. ^B{1973^B} Juan Per≤n was re-elected President of Argentina; he had been ousted in 1955. ^B{1974^B} The world's first Ceefax teletext service was begun in Britain by the BBC.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Augustus, 1st Roman Emperor, ^B{63 BC^B}; Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, ^B{1713^B}; Mickey Rooney, US film actor, ^B{1920^B}; John Coltrane, US saxophonist, ^B{1926^B}; Ray Charles, US singer, ^B{1930^B}; Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer, ^B{1943^B}; Bruce Springsteen, US rock singer, ^B{1949^B}; Jeff Squire, rugby footballer, ^B{1951^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Nicholas Franτois Mansart, French architect, ^B{1666^B}; Prosper MerimΘe, French novelist, ^B{1870^B}; Wilkie Collins, English novelist, ^B{1889^B}; Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst, ^B{1939^B}; Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, ^B{1973^B}; Bob Fosse, US director, ^B{1987^B}.
