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15 September is the 258th day of the year (259th in Leap Year s). There are 107 days remaining.
Events
- 608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope .
- 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy .
- 921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
- 1514 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop Of York .
- 1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain .
- 1584 - San Lorenzo Del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1590 - Giambattista Catagna is elected as Pope Urban VII .
- 1644 - Giambattista Pamphilj becomes Pope Innocent X , succeeding Pope Urban VIII .
- 1656 - England & France sign peace treaty.
- 1683 - Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families.
- 1749 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moves outside Neptune's Orbit to remain the outermost Planet until 1979 .
- during the New York Campaign .
- 1789 - The United States Department Of State is established (formerly known as ''Department of Foreign Affairs'').
- 1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches The Kremlin in Moscow .
- 1821 - Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , and Nicaragua jointly declare independence from Spain .
- 1830 - The Liverpool To Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below).
- 1831 - The locomotive '' John Bull '' operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden And Amboy Railroad .
- 1835 - The HMS ''Beagle'' , with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands .
- 1851 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
- 1857 - Timothy Alder patents the Typesetting machine.
- forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia .
- troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
- 1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai ), India .
- defeats China in the Battle Of Ping Yang .
- begins between Germany and France .
- s are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle Of The Somme .
- 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a Bacteria -killing Mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as Penicillin .
- 1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English Cricket season.
- 1931 - In Scotland , the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.
- 1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jew s of Citizenship .
- 1935 - Nazi Germany adopts a new National Flag with the Swastika .
- ends with a Royal Air Force victory over the Luftwaffe .
- 1941 - The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act .
- is torpedoed at Guadalcanal .
- 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
- 1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond .
- are beating the Chicago Cubs , 2-0, in the 5th inning when a swarm of gnats causes the game to be postponed.
- 1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 Vacuum Tube .
- 1948 - The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h.
- 1949 - The television series '' The Lone Ranger '' premieres on the ABC .
- forces land at Incheon , Korea .
- 1951 - '' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes '' closes on Broadway in New York City after 740 performances.
- 1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia .
- 1954 - The U.S. Postal Service issues its 2¢ Thomas Jefferson ''Liberty Series'' stamp.
- 1955 - Vladimir Nabokov 's '' Lolita '' is published in Paris by Olympia Press .
- 1955 - The '' I Love Lucy '' episode featuring John Wayne premieres.
- 1957 - West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
- 1958 - A Central Railroad Of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
- 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States .
- 1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
- 1962 - The Soviet ship '' Poltava '' heads toward Cuba , one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis .
- 1963 - The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama , United States .
- 1964 - The Beatles play at a public auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio , United States .
- 1964 - '' The Sun '' newspaper launches, replacing the '' Daily Herald ''.
- 1965 - The television series '' Lost In Space '' premieres.
- 1966 - The spaceship '' Gemini XI '', with astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon aboard, returns to earth.
- 1967 - Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson , responding to a sniper attack at the University Of Texas At Austin , writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of Gun Control legislation.
- 1968 - The Soviet '' Zond 5 '' spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
- pitcher Steve Carlton sets a record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a single game.
- , Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 536th home run, tying Mickey Mantle for third spot on the career home runs list.
- 1972 - A magnitude 4.5 Earthquake shakes Northern Illinois .
- 1972 - An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1973 - Secretariat wins the Marlboro Cup in world record time.
- 1974 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
- and Corse-du-Sud .
- 1975 - Pink Floyd releases the Album '' Wish You Were Here '' in the U.S. and UK .
- 1976 - '' Soyuz 22 '' carries two Cosmonauts into earth orbit for eight days.
- 1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks for the world heavyweight Boxing title.
- 1980 - Paul McCartney releases " Temporary Secretary ".
- 1981 - The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to the United States Supreme Court .
- 1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC .
- 1982 - The first issue of '' USA Today '' is published by Gannett .
- 1983 - Israel i premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 1985 - Willie Nelson 's Farm Aid concert begins.
- 1986 - First broadcast of the TV show '' L.A. Law '' on NBC .
- 1987 - U.S. Secretary Of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
- 1988 - Lillehammer, Norway , beats Anchorage, Alaska , United States , to host the 1994 Winter Olympics .
- 1989 - The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson 's continued captivity in Beirut .
- 1990 - France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf .
- 1993 - Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament.
- 1994 - Muslim Fundamentalist s kidnap & behead 16 people in Algeria .
- 1997 - Norwegian Parliamentary Election, 1997
- 1997 - Hastings Wise murders four at the R.E. Phelon Company lawn mower parts manufacturing factory in Aiken , South Carolina . The only possible motive for the murders was Hastings' dismissal from his job eleven weeks earlier.
- 1998 - WorldCom and MCI Communications finish their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest Bankruptcy in United States history.
- 2000 - The 27th Summer Olympics opens in Sydney , Australia .
- 2001 - Alex Zanardi , driving in a CART race is injured in Germany, resulting in both legs being amputated below the knee.
- 2004 - Davíð Oddsson , the longest serving Prime Minister Of Iceland , steps down after serving in office from 1991 , and becomes minister for foreign affairs. At the time he was the longest serving PM in Europe .
- 2005 - Kenny Chesney and Renée Zellweger file for Divorce after four months of marriage.
Births
- 973 - Al-Biruni , mathematician (d. 1048 )
- 1254 - Marco Polo , Italian explorer (d. 1324 )
- 1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot , French lawyer (d. 1659 )
- 1613 - François De La Rochefoucauld , French writer (d. 1680 )
- 1649 - Titus Oates , English minister and plotter (d. 1705 )
- 1715 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette De Gribeauval , French artillery specialist (d. 1789 )
- 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper , American novelist (d. 1851 )
- 1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov , Russian chemist (d. 1886 )
- 1830 - Porfirio Díaz , President Of Mexico (d. 1915 )
- 1852 - Edward Bouchet , American physicist (d. 1918 )
- 1857 - William Howard Taft , President Of The United States and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1930 )
- 1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya , eminent Indian engineer and statesman.
- 1876 - Bruno Walter , German conductor (d. 1962 )
- 1879 - Joseph Lyons , tenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1939 )
- 1881 - Ettore Bugatti , Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947 )
- 1883 - Esteban Terradas I Illa , Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (d. 1950 )
- 1887 - Carlos Dávila , President Of Chile and Secretary General of the Organization of American States (d. 1955 )
- 1889 - Robert Benchley , American author (d. 1945 )
- 1890 - Agatha Christie , English writer (d. 1976 )
- 1890 - Frank Martin , Swiss composer (d. 1974 )
- 1894 - Jean Renoir , French film director (d. 1979 )
- 1894 - Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist (d. 1977 )
- 1898 - J. Slauerhoff , Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936 )
- 1901 - Sir Donald Bailey , British engineer (d. 1985 )
- 1903 - Roy Acuff , American musician (d. 1992 )
- 1904 - King Umberto II Of Italy (d. 1983 )
- 1907 - Fay Wray , Canadian-born actress (d. 2004 )
- 1908 - Penny Singleton , American actress (d. 2003 )
- 1913 - John N. Mitchell , United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988 )
- 1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentine writer (d. 1999 )
- 1922 - Jackie Cooper , American actor and director
- 1924 - Bobby Short , American musician (d. 2005 )
- 1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre , French mathematician
- 1928 - Cannonball Adderley , American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975 )
- 1929 - Eva Burrows , the 13th General of The Salvation Army
- 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 - Henry Darrow , American actor
- 1933 - Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos , Spanish conductor
- 1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr. , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 - Gaylord Perry , baseball player
- 1940 - Merlin Olsen , American football player and actor
- 1941 - Flórián Albert , Hungarian footballer
- 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones , American actor
- 1946 - Oliver Stone , American film director
- 1949 - Joe Barton , American politician
- 1951 - Johan Neeskens , Dutch football player
- 1961 - Dan Marino , American football player
- 1969 - Jim Curtiss , American writer
- 1971 - Nathan Astle , New Zealand cricket player
- 1975 - Jamie Stevens , German pop singer
- 1976 - Paul Thomson , Scottish drummer ( Franz Ferdinand )
- 1978 - Eidur Gudjohnsen , Icelandic footballer
- 1979 - Sophie Dahl , British model
- 1979 - Amy Davidson , American actress
- 1984 - Prince Harry Of Wales
Deaths
- 1500 - John Morton , Archbishop Of Canterbury
- 1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf , German physician and botanist (b. 1535 )
- 1613 - Thomas Overbury , English writer (murdered) (b. 1581 )
- 1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl Of Cork , Irish politician (b. 1566 )
- 1649 - John Floyd , English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572 )
- 1700 - André Le Nôtre , French landscape architect (b. 1613 )
- 1701 - Edmé Boursault , French writer (b. 1638 )
- 1707 - George Stepney , English poet and diplomat (b. 1663 )
- 1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl Of Godolphin , English politician
- 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel , German composer (b. 1690 )
- 1794 - Abraham Clark , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725 )
- 1803 - Gian Francesco Albani , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719 )
- 1830 - William Huskisson , first rail fatality
- 1842 - Pierre Baillot , French violinist and composer (b. 1771 )
- 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel , British engineer (b. 1806 )
- 1864 - John Hanning Speke , British explorer (b. 1827 )
- 1883 - Joseph Plateau , Belgian physicist (b. 1801 )
- 1885 - Jumbo , P. T. Barnum 's circus elephant (hit by a train)
- 1893 - Thomas Hawksley , English civil engineer (b. 1807 )
- 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846 )
- 1930 - Milton Sills , American actor (b. 1882 )
- 1945 - André Tardieu , Prime Minister Of France (b. 1876 )
- 1945 - Anton Webern , Austrian composer (shot) (b. 1883 )
- 1965 - Steve Brown , American musician (b. 1890 )
- 1972 - Geoffrey Fisher , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1887 )
- 1973 - King Gustav VI Adolf Of Sweden (b. 1882 )
- 1978 - Willy Messerschmitt , German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1898 )
- 1980 - Bill Evans , American jazz pianist (b. 1929 )
- 1989 - Robert Penn Warren , American writer (b. 1905 )
- 2003 - Jack Brymer , English clarinetist (b. 1915 )
- 2003 - Josef Hirsal , Czech novelist (b. 1920 )
- 2004 - Johnny Ramone , American guitarist ( The Ramones ) (prostate cancer) (b. 1948 )
- 2004 - Walter Stewart , Canadian journalist (b. 1931 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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