Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 23

September 23:

Ramón Emeterio Betances

• 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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