September 15
September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). There are 107 days remaining.
Events
- 608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope
- 921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
- 1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England
- 1776 - British land at Kip's Bay during New York Campaign
- 1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
- 1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent
- 1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. (see also deaths, below)
- 1862 - Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia
- 1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
- 1894 - Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang
- 1914 - The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France
- 1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme
- 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold, to become known as penicillin, growing in his laboratory
- 1931 - The Invergordon Mutiny begins
- 1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship
- 1935 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika
- 1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 Vacuum tube
- 1950 - United States forces land at Incheon, Korea
- 1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
- 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States
- 1963 - Four children are killed when a bomb explodes in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama
- 1981 - Vanuatu is member of the UN
- 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
Births
- 973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
- 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, novelist (d. 1851)
- 1857 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1930)
- 1876 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
- 1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
- 1889 - Robert Benchley, author (d. 1945)
- 1890 - Agatha Christie, writer (d. 1976)
- 1894 - Jean Renoir, film director (d. 1979)
- 1903 - Roy Acuff, country musician (d. 1992)
- 1907 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
- 1913 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)
- 1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, writer (d. 1999)
- 1915 - Igor Cassini, fashion designer (d. 2002)
- 1922 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director
- 1924 - Bobby Short, jazz musician
- 1924 - Lucebert, Dutch painter and poet
- 1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- 1928 - Cannonball Adderley, saxophonist, bandleader (d. 1975)
- 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist.
- 1933 - Henry Darrow, actor
- 1938 - Gaylord Perry, Baseball star
- 1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football star, actor
- 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)
- 1946 - Oliver Stone, film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK)
- 1961 - Dan Marino, American football star
- 1984 - Prince Harry of Wales
Deaths
- 1830 - William Huskisson, M.P., struck by George Stephenson's train engine `Rocket', at the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester line. The first rail fatality of history.
- 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer
- 1864 - John Hanning Speke - British explorer of Africa
- 1885 - P.T. Barnum's famous Elephant, Jumbo, hit by locomotive while crossing tracks, died instantly. Was later stuffed and put on display with the circus.
- 1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author of Oblomov
- 1893 - Thomas Hawksley, civil engineer
- 1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer
- 1965 - Steve Brown, jazz musician (b. 1890)
- 1973 - Gustav VI Adolf, king of Sweden
- 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist
- 2003 - Josef Hiršal, novelist
- 2004 - Johnny Ramone, guitarist for the Ramones. He died of a five-year battle with prostate cancer.
Holidays
September 14 · September 16 · August 15 · October 15 · more historical anniversaries
