SEPTEMBER 23
1952:Republican vice presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon delivers his famous Checkers speech, in which he defends the accounting of a political cash fund donated by sponsors. Most memorably, Nixon refuses to return a gift much beloved by his daughters — the cocker spaniel Checkers — regardless of the implications of politicians receiving such gifts.
1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return to St. Louis from their two-year overland journey to record the new lands of the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis, Clark, Native American guide Sacagawea and the Corps of Discovery had travelled 8,000 miles round trip to reach the Pacific Ocean, while collecting valuable information about the Pacific Northwest.
1973: Former Argentine President Juan Perón returns to power after being forced into exile for 18 years. He serves for nine months until his death on July 1, 1974.
1962:"The Jetsons" Premieres on ABC-TV
1909 :Novel "The Phantom of the Opera," by Gaston Leroux, first published
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