1992
Sep 23, Bernice Gera, the 1st female baseball umpire (1969 NY-Penn League) died at age 61
1998
Sep 23, Actress Mary Frann, who played Bob Newhart's wife on TV's "Newhart," died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 55.

1999
Sep 23, Pres. Clinton vetoed the $792 billion GOP proposed 10-year tax cut calling it "too big, too bloated."

2000
Sep 23, At the Sydney Olympics, Marion Jones won the women's 100-meter final in 10.7 seconds; Maurice Greene (news - web sites) took the men's 100 in 9.87 seconds.

2004
Sep 23, In Belgium a woman gave birth to a healthy baby after doctors had transplanted ovarian tissue, frozen since 1997, back into her abdomen.
2010
Sep 23, A New York court sentenced Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist, to 86 years in prison. Siddiqui (38) was detained in Afghanistan in 2008. She was found guilty of seizing a weapon from one of her captors and trying to shoot US authorities who were interrogating her there.

2010
Sep 23, In Seattle, Wa., Saroeun Phan shot and killed 3 members of her family and then killed herself. Relatives said she suffered from depression and schizophrenia.
2010
Sep 23, The state of Virginia executed Teresa Lewis (41) by lethal injection. She had plotted the murder of her husband and stepson 8 years ago and hired 2 gunmen, one of whom became her lover, for the murder.

2013
Sep 23, In Russia Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the imprisoned members of the punk group Pussy Riot, said she is beginning a hunger strike to protest harsh working conditions and threats to her life.