Today is the 266th day of 2023 and the first day of autumn.
In 1806, Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis from its exploration venture to the Pacific coast.
In 1845, the New York Knickerbockers baseball club was founded.
In 1846, astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
In 1952, vice presidential candidate Richard N…