September 23rd, 1952Future President Richard Nixon uses what’s then the new medium of television to make his case. Nixon at the time the Republican candidate for vice president denies charges that use a secret campaign fund for his personal expenses. Instead Nixon says the only gift he’d accepted was the family dog, whom his daughters named checkers.

“You know the kids like all kids love the dog. I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it. We gonna keep it.”

63 B.C.

Augustus Caesar, ancient Rome’s first emperor, and the grandnephew of Julius Caesar is born Gaius Octavius in what’s now Italy’s capital.

1806Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark end their expedition to America’s uncharted west. They return to St. Louis more than two years after setting out for the Pacific Northwest.

1939Psychologist Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis dies in London, he was 83.

1930“Just an old sweet song, keeps Georgia on my mind.”

Ray Charles, the singer and pianist who helped pioneer soul music is born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia.

And 1949"Come on up for the rising, come on up lay your hands in mine. "BruceSpringsteen, the rock singer and songwriter known as the Boss is born in Freehold, New Jersey.

Today in History, September 23rd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.