September 23.

63 BC:Augustus Caesar born.

1215:Kublai Khan born.

1869:"Typhoid Mary" Mallon born in Tyrone.

1889:Nintendo was founded as a playing card
company called Nintendo Koppai.

1909:Phantom of the Opera makes its appearance as a serialisation in a French newspaper.

1930:Ray Charles born.

1932:Kingdom of Saudia Arabia founded.

1939:Sigmund Freud dies.

1942:Manhattan Project begins-it will eventually deliver the atomic bomb.

1949:Bruce Springsteen born.

1957:"That'll be the Day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches number one in America.

1962:The Jetsons first broadcast on ABC.