15th
September, on this day
608 St Boniface
IV begins his reign as Catholic 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.
1556 Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles
V returns to Spain.
1584 San
Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1600 Battle
of Sekigahara
1616 The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened
in Frascati, Italy.
1620 Mayflower
departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
1683 Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families.
1762 Battle
of Signal Hill : last skirmish of the French and Indian War
1776 British
forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution
1812 The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin
in Moscow.
1820 Constitutionalist
revolution in Lisbon, Portugal
1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain
independ
1830 In England, the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester railway
line - and the first railway fatality. As MP William
Huskisson steps from a train to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington
he's run over and killed
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.
1853 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette
Blackwell
1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers
Ferry
1873 Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon
completion of payment of indemnity.
1883 The Bombay
Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
1894 Japan defeats China in Battle
of Ping Yang
1904 Wilbur
Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1910 South African Party wins the first South African elections and
Louis Botha becomes Prime Minister
1913 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1914 Battle
of Aisne between Germans and French during WW I
1916 The first effective military
tanks are first used by the British on the Somme
during World War I - the new weapon designed by Sir Ernest Swinton
1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1930 1st international bridge match is held in London. US team defeats
England
1931 British
naval force mutinies at Invergordon over pay
1935 At a Nazi rally in Nuremberg, German leader Adolf Hitler issues
new decrees which relegate Jews
to sub-human status and make the Swastika the official German
flag
1938 British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1
day)
1938 British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain meets Adolf Hitler to negotiate a compromise over
German expansionism in Europe
1940 Tide turns in Battle
of Britain in WW II, when the Royal Air Force shoot down large
numbers of Luftwaffe.
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
1942 The U.S. aircraft carrier USS
Wasp 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.
1947 RCA
releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1948 F-86
Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1949 "The
Lone Ranger" premiers on ABC-TV
1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at
Inchon in the south
1952 Britain hands the North African area known as Eritrea, to Ethiopia
1954 Conductor Sir
Thomas Beecham makes his debut a the Proms - the annual Promonade
Concerts in London
1957 West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad
Adenauer remains chancellor.
1958 A New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at
the Newark Bay, killing 58.
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev
arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
1960 London introduces traffic wardens onto the streets of the capital
1961
Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's
Cup yacht race (US wins)
1962 The Soviet ship Poltava
heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban
Missile Crisis
1963 4
children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1964 First edition of the Sun newspaper in Britain - the replacement
for the Daily
Herald
1965 "Lost
in Space" premiers
1966 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.
1966 Gemini XI returns to Earth
1968 Launch of Zond
5, the 1st lunar flyaround with Earth reentry. Probable test flight
for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300
million
1972 A SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked
and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
1973 "Star
Trek-Animated" premiers on TV
1974 The begining of the civil war between Christians and Muslims
in Beirut
1974 Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting
to land with 75 on board.
1975 The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica)
is divided into two: Haute-Corse
and Corse-du-Sud.
1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
1978 American boxer Muhammed Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) beats Leon
Spinks to win his third world heavyweight title
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.
1981 Vanuatu
becomes a member of the United Nations.
1982 1st issue of "USA
Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1983 Israeli premier Menachem
Begin resigns.
1985 In golf, the European team captained by Tony Jacklin ends years
of American domination by winning the Ryder
Cup
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 upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter
olympics
1989 The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry
Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf
1993 Liechtenstein
Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1997 Former Eurovision
song contest winner Dana
- real name Rosemary Scallon - announces she is a candidate in the
Irish presidential elections
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Birthdates
which occurred on 15th September:
53 Trajan 13th
Roman emperor (98-117), conqueror of Ctesiphon
1613 Francois duc de la Rochefoucald Paris France, writer (Memoires)
1789 James Fenimore Cooper 1st major American novelist (Prairie)
1830 Porfirio D¡az soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1857 William Howard Taft Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
1876 Bruno Walter (B.W. Schlesinger), Berlin Germany, conductor (NY
Phil)
1876 Frank E Gannett Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1889 Robert Benchley author (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
1890 Dame Agatha Christie mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express)
1890 Frank Martin Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1894 Jean Renoir cin‚aste (Grand Illusion)
1899 Milton S Eisenhower Dwight's brother/Pennsylvania State president
19-- Francine Tacker Flushing NY, actress (Elizabeth-Paper Chase,
Dallas)
1903 Roy Acuff Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1904 Tom Conway Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
1904 Umberto II king of Italy (1946)
1906 Kathryn Murray Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1906 Penny Singleton Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
1907 Fay Wray Alberta, actress (King Kong)
1907 Jack Bailey Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
1913 Henry Dreyfus Brant Montreal Canada, composer (Great American
Goot)
1913 John Mitchell Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1914 Creighton Abrams US, army general (Vietnam War)
1915 John Conte Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
1916 Margaret Lockwood actress (Lady Vanishes)
1921 Jackie Cooper LA Calif, actor/director (Hennesey, People's Choice)
1924 Bobby Short singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
1925 Forrest Compton Reading Pa, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night)
1927 Norm Crosby Boston Mass, comedian/double talker (Liar's Club)
1928 Cannonball Adderley singer (Black Messiah, Beginnings)
1929 Murray Gell-Mann physicist who predicted quarks
1933 Henry Darrow NYC, actor (Harry O, New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1933 Rafael Frbeck de Burgos Burgos, Spain, conductor (World
of Song)
1938 Gaylord Perry baseball player (1972 AL Cy Young winner)
1940 Merlin Olsen UT, NFL tackle (Rams)/sportscaster/actor (Father
Murphy)
1941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski 1st Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30)
1946 Oliver Stone NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
1946 Tommy Lee Jones actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday)
1953 Jerry Page golfer (largest PGA victory margin)
1956 Jaki Graham British personality
1956 Tawny Schneider Portland Me, newscaster (Eye on Hollywood)
1960 Scott Thompson Baker Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
1961 Dan Marino NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 Wendie Jo Sperber Glendale Calif, actress (Amy-Bossom Buddies)
1967 Jerry Dixon heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1968 Danny Nucci actor (Gabriel Ortega-Falcon Crest)
1984 Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, 3rd in British sucession
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Deaths which occurred
on September 15th:
1963 Fred Hillebrand actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1979 Tommy Leonetti singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1981 Sara Haden actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Iran's former foreign minister, executed by
Iran
1983 LeRoy Prinz choreographer, dies at 88
1983 Willie Bobo jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1986 Virginia Gregg actress (Little Women), dies at 69
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