September 15
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September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is murdered in his bath.
- 1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest-known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
- 1616 – The first non-aristocratic free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
- 1762 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay, during the New York campaign.
- 1789 – The United States Department of State is founded, as the Department of Foreign Affairs.
- 1812 – The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte enters Moscow.
- 1820 – Constitutionalist Revolution in Lisbon
- 1821 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
- 1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. On the same day, William Huskisson becomes the first railway fatality after being hit by a locomotive.
- 1835 – The HMS Beagle arrives in the Galapagos Islands with a young Charles Darwin on board.
- 1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harper's Ferry, then in Virginia, now in West Virginia.
- 1873 – Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France.
- 1875 – Indianola, Texas, is destroyed by a Hurricane, killing between 150 and 300 people.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- 1916 – World War I: Tanks are used in Battle for the first time, in the Somme, northern France.
- 1935 – With the Nuremberg Laws, the Nazis strip Jews of German citizenship.
- 1935 – The Nazis adopt the Swastika flag as the flag of Germany.
- 1940 – World War II: Climax of the Battle of Britain.
- 1942 – World War II: United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal, present-day Solomon Islands.
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Peleliu (in Palau), between US and Japanese forces, begins.
- 1944 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon conference to discuss strategy.
- 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen kills 1,077 people in the Kanto region of Japan.
- 1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record, at 671 miles per hour (1,080 kilometres per hour).
- 1949 – Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1950 – Korean War: US forces land at Inchon.
- 1952 – The UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58 people.
- 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the US.
- 1961 – Hurricane Carla hits Texas.
- 1962 – Soviet ship Poltava heads towards Cuba, one of the events that lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963 – "Birmingham Sunday" when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama.
- 1966 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to 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 Earth's atmosphere.
- 1969 – US ice breaker tanker SS Manhattan passes through the Northwest Passage, after four weeks.
- 1973 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden becomes King.
- 1981 – Vanuatu joins the UN.
- 1990 – France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- 1994 – For the first time, a planet outside the Solar System is discovered.
- 1997 – New York City's Museum of Jewish Heritage opens.
- 2000 – The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney begin.
- 2007 – Former world Rally champion Colin McRae dies in a helicopter crash in Lanarkshire, Scotland, along with his son and two family friends.
- 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- 2011 – A parliamentary election is held in Denmark, resulting in Helle Thorning-Schmidt becoming Prime Minister on October 3.
Births [change]
- 1254 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
- 1533 – Catherine of Austria, Queen Consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
- 1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle, German princess (d. 1726)
- 1675 – Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Georgian King (d. 1737)
- 1690 – Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and music educator (d. 1748)
- 1736 – Jean-Silvain Bailly, French politician and astronomer (d. 1793)
- 1761 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine politician (d. 1829)
- 1787 – Guillaume-Henri Dufour, Swiss humanist, general, politician, mapmaker and engineer (d. 1875)
- 1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
- 1825 – Iwakura Tomomi, Japanese statesman (d. 1883)
- 1828 – Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
- 1830 – Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
- 1834 – Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and publicist (d. 1896)
- 1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
- 1857 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
- 1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French monk (d. 1916)
- 1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
- 1866 – Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
- 1877 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and Zionist (d. 1938)
- 1879 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
- 1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
- 1883 – Esteban Teradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
- 1887 – Carlos Davila, President of Chile (d. 1955)
- 1888 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
- 1889 – Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
- 1890 – Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
- 1894 – Jean Renoir, French movie director (d. 1979)
- 1895 – Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
- 1903 – Roy Acuff, American Country musician (d. 1992)
- 1904 – King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
- 1907 – Alfred Delp, German Jesuit and Resistance activist (d. 1945)
- 1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Misko Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983)
- 1911 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
- 1913 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- 1915 – Helmut Schoen, German footballer and manager (d. 1996)
- 1916 – Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
- 1919 – Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Bob Anderson, British fencer and sword fight choreographer (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- 1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese movie director (d. 2006)
- 1926 – Ed Derwinski, American politician (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz musician (d. 1975)
- 1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist
- 1935 – Patriarch Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East
- 1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
- 1937 – Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist
- 1937 – Fernando de la Rua, former President of Argentina
- 1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
- 1941 – Florian Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
- 1942 – Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People's Republic of China
- 1944 – Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager
- 1945 – Hans-Gert Poettering, German politician
- 1946 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish musician (d. 2008)
- 1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
- 1946 – Oliver Stone, American film director
- 1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Islamic spiritual leader
- 1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
- 1952 – Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
- 1959 – Mark Kirk, American politician
- 1961 – Dan Marino, American football player
- 1964 – Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia
- 1969 – Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
- 1970 – Svetlana Zakharova, Russian long-distance runner
- 1972 – Jimmy Carr, British comedian
- 1972 – Letizia, Princess of Asturias, Spanish princess
- 1973 – Daniel Westling, Swedish royal
- 1974 – Murat Yakin, Swiss footballer
- 1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish musician
- 1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Sophie Dahl, British model
- 1978 – Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
- 1978 – Kew Jaliens, Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
- 1983 – Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1984 – Prince Harry of Wales, British royal
- 1986 – Heidi Montag, American television personality and singer
- 1986 – Peter Wilson, British sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist
- 1987 – Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
Deaths [change]
- 668 – Constans II, Emperor (b. 630)
- 921 – Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. 860)
- 1134 – Alfonso the Battler, King of Aragon and Navarra (b. 1073)
- 1231 – Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
- 1352 – Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
- 1750 – Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
- 1794 – Abraham Clark, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- 1805 – Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman (b. 1724)
- 1830 – William Huskisson, English first rail fatality (b. 1770)
- 1835 – Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
- 1842 – Francisco Morazan, President of Central America (b. 1792)
- 1859 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
- 1864 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
- 1883 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
- 1926 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
- 1938 – Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
- 1940 – William B. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1874)
- 1945 – Andre Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
- 1972 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
- 1972 – Asgeir Asgeirsson, second President of Iceland (b. 1894)
- 1973 – King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (b. 1882)
- 1973 – Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
- 1975 – Pavel Sukhoi, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1895)
- 1978 – Willy Messerschmidt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
- 1981 – Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
- 1989 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
- 1995 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Luke Rasminsky, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
- 2001 – June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
- 2006 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
- 2008 – Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
Observances [change]
- Battle of Britain Day (United Kingdom)
- Independence Day (Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua)
- International Day of Democracy
- Engineers' Day (India)
