On This Day: Friday September 23, 2005 This is the 266th day of the year, with 99 days remaining in 2005. Fact of the Day: massage The word massage comes from French masser 'to massage,' from Arabic massa 'to feel, handle, palpate.' Holidays Saudi Arabia: Unification Day/Kingdom Unification. Wyoming: Frontier Day. United States: Native American Day. Pennsylvania Dutch: Schwenkenfelder Day/Thanksgiving Day. Events 1518 - The Royal College of Physicians was established to protect citizens from medical charlatans and quacks. 1642 - Harvard College held first commencement. 1779 - American warship Bonhomme Richard defeated the HMS Serapis after the American commander, John Paul Jones, was said to have declared: "I have not yet begun to fight!" 1780 - British spy John Andre was captured along with papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point to the British. 1788 - Louis XVI of France declared the Parliament restored. 1806 - Lewis and Clark and their expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest, three years after it departed. 1846 - Neptune, the eighth planet, was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. 1912 - Mack Sennet's first "Keystone Cop" film debuted. 1945 - The first American died in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon to French forces. 1952 - Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver the "Checkers" speech, a refute of allegations of improper campaign financing. 1962 - New York's Philharmonic Hall opened. 1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on TV. 1964 - Marc Chagall's painted ceiling of the Paris Opera House was unveiled. 1973 - Former Argentine president Juan Peron returned to power after an 18-year exile in Spain. 2002 - A 24-count indictment charging conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud was filed against the founding family and two executives of bankrupt cable company Adelphia Communications. Births 484 B.C.E. - Euripides, Greek playwright. 63 B.C.E. - Augustus Caesar (Octavian), first Roman emperor. 1800 - William McGuffy, American educator and author of the "McGuffy Readers." 1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, the first woman American presidential candidate (1872). 1863 - Mary Church Terrell, American educator, activist, and first president of the National Associated of Colored Women. 1880 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist and political commentator. 1920 - Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.), American actor. 1926 - John Coltrane, American composer and musician. 1930 - Ray Charles (Robinson), American singer and piano player. 1943 - Julio Iglesias, Latin singer. 1949 - Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter. Deaths 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. 1987 - Bob Fosse, American theater and motion-picture choreographer and director.