September 15
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September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in
leap years). There are 107 days remaining.
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Events
\n*608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope\n*1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England\n* 1776 - British land at Kip's Bay during New York Campaign\n*1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).\n*1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent\n*1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. (see also deaths, below)\n*1862 - Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia\n*1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India\n*1894 - Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang\n*1914 - The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France\n*1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme\n*1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship\n*1950 - United States forces land at Inchon, Korea\n*1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia\n*1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States\n*1963 - Four children are killed when a bomb explodes in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama
Births
\n*973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)\n*1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, novelist (d. 1851)\n*1857 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice (d. 1930)\n*1876 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)\n*1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)\n*1889 - Robert Benchley, author (d. 1945)\n*1890 - Agatha Christie, writer (d. 1976)\n*1894 - Jean Renoir, film director (d. 1979)\n*1903 - Roy Acuff, country musician (d. 1992)\n*1907 - Fay Wray, actress\n*1913 - John N. Mitchell, former United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (d. 1988)\n*1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, writer (d. 1999)\n*1915 - Igor Cassini, fashion designer (d. 2002)\n*1922 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director\n*1924 - Bobby Short, jazz musician\n* 1924 - Lucebert, Dutch painter and poet\n*1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician\n*1928 - Cannonball Adderley, saxophonist, bandleader (d. 1975)\n*1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist. \n*1933 - Henry Darrow, actor\n*1938 - Gaylord Perry, Baseball star\n*1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football star, actor\n*1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (The Fugitive, Men in Black)\n* 1946 - Oliver Stone, film director (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK)\n*1961 - Dan Marino, American football star\n*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. \n* 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer\n* 1864 - John Hanning Speke - British explorer of Africa\n* 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.\n* 1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author of Oblomov\n* 1893 - Thomas Hawksley, civil engineer\n* 1898 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator\n* 1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer\n* 1965 - Steve Brown, jazz musician (b. 1890)\n* 1973 - Gustav VI Adolf, king of Sweden\n* 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist\n* 2003 - Josef Hiršal, novelist
Holidays
\n*In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross.\n*In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.\n*In Japan, Respect for the Aged Day.
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