What happened on September 15? There are more than 329 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 15
September 15 is the 259th day of the year 2024. There are 107 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 37th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Laura, Ohio 45337 sunrise will occur at 07:18 AM and sunset will occur at 07:47 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 136 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 15
- 668Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
- 921At Tetin Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
- 994Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
- 1440Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
- 1556Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
- 1616The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
- 1762Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip’s Bay during the New York Campaign.
- 1789The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the “Department of Foreign Affairs”).
- 1812The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
- 1812War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 1816HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar
- 1820Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1821Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
- 1830The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
- 1831The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1835HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
- 1851Saint Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1862American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
- 1873Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
- 1894First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- 1916World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
- 1935Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1935The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1940World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
- 1942World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- 1944Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps’ 1st Marine Division and the United States Army’s 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
- 1944Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
- 1945A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
- 1947RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
- 1947Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
- 1948The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 mph.
- 1950Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
- 1952United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1958A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
- 1959Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
- 1961Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
- 1962The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- 1966U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- 1968The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
- 1972A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1974Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
- 1975The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- 1981The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
- 1981The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1981Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1983Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 1987United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
- 1990France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- 1993Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
- 1998With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
- 2004National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
- 2008Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
Who Were Born On September 15?
- 1533Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
- 1580Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
- 1613François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
- 1649Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
- 1666Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
- 1715Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
- 1736Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and orator (d. 1793)
- 1759Cornelio Saavedra, president of the Primera Junta and the Junta Grande, first patriotic governments of Argentina (d. 1829)
- 1760Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
- 1789James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
- 1815Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (d. 1868)
- 1819Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)
- 1828Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
- 1830Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
- 1852Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
- 1857William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1930)
- 1858Charles de Foucauld, French catholic priest (d. 1916)
- 1858Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
- 1860Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian Engineer (d. 1962), His birthday is celebrated as Engineer’s Day in India
- 1863Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
- 1864Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)
- 1867Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
- 1870Rose Sutro, American duo-pianist with her sister Ottilie (d. 1957)
- 1876Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
- 1876Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
- 1877Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
- 1879Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
- 1880Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (d. 1940)
- 1881Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
- 1883Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
- 1887Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
- 1888Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
- 1889Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
- 1890Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
- 1890Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (d. 1979)
- 1890Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
- 1892Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
- 1894Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
- 1894Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
- 1895Charles “Chic” Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
- 1895Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
- 1898J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
- 1901Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
- 1903Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
- 1904King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
- 1904Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-US gossip columnist (d. 1988)
- 1906Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960)
- 1906Walter E. Rollins, American musician and songwriter(d. 1973)
- 1907Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
- 1907Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968)
- 1908Kid Sheik, New Orleans jazz trumpeter (d. 1996)
- 1908Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1909C.N.Annadurai, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
- 1909Phil Arnold, American actor d. 1968
- 1910Betty Neels, English novelist (d. 2001)
- 1911Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
- 1911Luther Terry, American Surgeon General (d. 1985)
- 1913Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harmonica player (d. 1991)
- 1913Henry Brant, Canadian-born American composer (d. 2008)
- 1913Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d. 1994)
- 1913John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988)
- 1914Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
- 1914Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974)
- 1914Orhan Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 1970)
- 1915Al Casey (jazz guitarist), African American swing guitarist (d. 2005)
- 1915Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999)
- 1915Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
- 1915José Nicomedes Grossi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2009)
- 1916Frederick C. Weyand, U.S. Army General (d. 2010)
- 1916Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
- 1917Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988)
- 1918Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
- 1919Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960)
- 1919Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1920Kym Bonython, Australian radio broadcaster, jazz musician, speedway promoter (d. 2011)
- 1921Gene Roland, jazz composer, arranger and musician (d. 1982)
- 1921Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
- 1921Richard Gordon, English author of the Doctor series
- 1921Snooky Pryor, American Chicago blues harmonica player (d. 2006)
- 1922Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master
- 1922Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (d. 2011)
- 1923Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
- 1924Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
- 1924György Lázár, Hungarian communist
- 1924Lucebert, Dutch artist (d. 1994)
- 1925Forrest Compton, American actor
- 1925Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
- 1925Stanley Chapman, British architect, designer, translator and writer (d. 2009)
- 1926Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
- 1926Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
- 1927David Stove, Australian philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1927Erika Köth, German coloratura soprano (d. 1981)
- 1927Norm Crosby, American Comedian
- 1928Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
- 1929Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
- 1929Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931Brian Henderson, Australian television presenter
- 1932Neil Bartlett, English chemist (d. 2008)
- 1933Henry Darrow, American actor
- 1933Monica Maughan, Australian actress (d. 2010)
- 1933Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
- 1934Fred Nile, Australian politician
- 1936Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
- 1936Sara Henderson, Australian pastoralist and author (d. 2005)
- 1937Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
- 1937Giuseppe ‘Pino’Puglisi, Italian priest (d. 1993)
- 1937Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1938Gaylord Perry, baseball player
- 1940Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (d. 2010)
- 1940Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author
- 1941Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1941Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
- 1941Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
- 1941Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official
- 1941Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
- 1942Lee Dorman, American Bassist
- 1944Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
- 1945Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
- 1945Hans-Gert Pöttering, German politician, President of the European Parliament
- 1945Jessye Norman, American opera singer
- 1945Ron Shelton, American film director
- 1946Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
- 1946Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach and match referee
- 1946Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer (ABBA) (d. 2008)
- 1946Oliver Stone, American film director
- 1946Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
- 1947Charles “Bobo” Shaw, American free jazz drummer
- 1947Theodore Long, American professional wrestling manager
- 1949Joe Barton, American politician
- 1950Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- 1951Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
- 1951Pete Carroll, American football coach
- 1952Kelly Keagy, American drummer and vocalist
- 1952Paula Duncan, Australian actress
- 1952Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1953Paul Piché, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1954Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
- 1955Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
- 1955Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor
- 1955Renzo Rosso, Italian clothing designer
- 1956Jaki Graham, English singer
- 1956Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
- 1956Ned Rothenberg, American multi-instrumentalist and composer
- 1958Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
- 1958Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1959Mark Kirk, American politician, junior senator of Illinois
- 1960Ed Solomon, American screenwriter
- 1960Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
- 1961Dan Marino, American football player
- 1961Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1962Scott McNeil, Australian voice actor
- 1963Pete Myers, American basketball player
- 1964Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American musician (The Misfits)
- 1964Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister, populist
- 1966Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
- 1967Huw Bunford, guitarist in the rock band, Super Furry Animals
- 1967Paul Abbott, American baseball player
- 1967Sari Kaasinen, Finnish singer
- 1968Danny Nucci, American actor
- 1969Jeffrey Schwarz, American film director/producer
- 1971Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
- 1971Josh Charles, American actor
- 1971Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
- 1972Jimmy Carr, English-Irish comedian
- 1972Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
- 1972Letizia, Princess of Asturias, Spanish royalty
- 1973Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
- 1975Martina Krupičková, Czech artist
- 1975Tom Dolan, American swimmer
- 1976Matt Thornton, American baseball player
- 1976Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
- 1977Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977Jason Terry, American basketball player
- 1977Leander Jordan, American football player
- 1977Marisa Ramirez, American actress
- 1977Sophie Dahl, English model
- 1977Tom Hardy, English actor
- 1978Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
- 1979Amy Davidson, American actress
- 1979Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
- 1979Dave Annable, American actor
- 1979Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980David Diehl, American football player
- 1980Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
- 1980Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
- 1983Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
- 1984Prince Harry of Wales, English royalty
- 1985François-Olivier Roberge, Canadian speed skater
- 1986Heidi Montag, American TV personality and singer
- 1987Aly Cissokho, French footballer
- 1987Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
- 1988Chelsea Kane, American actress
- 1989Kris Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician
- 1990Oliver Gill, English footballer
- 1996Jake Cherry, American actor
Who Died On September 15?
- 668Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
- 866Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria (b. 820)
- 921Saint Ludmila of Bohemia, Bohemian martyr (b. c. 860)
- 1231Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
- 1326Dmitry of Tver, Grand Prince of Vladimir and Tver (b. 1299)
- 1352Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
- 1500John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1420)
- 1596Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist
- 1613Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
- 1643Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
- 1649John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
- 1700André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
- 1701Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
- 1707George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
- 1712Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
- 1750Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
- 1794Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
- 1803Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
- 1805Christopher Gadsden, American soldier and statesman from South Carolina (b. 1724)
- 1830François Baillairgé, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1759)
- 1830William Huskisson, English first rail fatality (b. 1770)
- 1835Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
- 1841Alessandro Rolla, Italian violin master and composer (b. 1757)
- 1842José Francisco Morazán Quezada, Guatemalan statesman (b. 1792)
- 1842Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (b. 1771)
- 1859Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
- 1864John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
- 1883Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (b. 1801)
- 1885Jumbo, P. T. Barnum’s circus elephant (b. 1861)
- 1893Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
- 1915Ernest Gagnon, Canadian folklorist, composer and organist (b. 1834)
- 1921Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1886)
- 1926Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
- 1930Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
- 1938Thomas Wolfe, American writer (b. 1900)
- 1940William B. Bankhead, American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (b. 1874)
- 1945André Tardieu, French statesman (b. 1876)
- 1945Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
- 1965Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
- 1972Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
- 1973Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
- 1978Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
- 1978Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (b. 1898)
- 1979Tommy Leonetti, American songwriter, entertainer (b. 1929)
- 1980Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
- 1981Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
- 1981Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
- 1983Prince Far I, Jamaican reggae toaster and record producer
- 1985Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
- 1987Steven Tuomi, American murder victim of Jeffrey Dahmer (b. 1963)
- 1989Jan DeGaetani, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1933)
- 1989Olga Erteszek, American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner (b. 1916)
- 1989Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
- 1991John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1993Ethan Allen, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1993Giuseppe ‘Pino’Puglisi, Italian priest (b. 1937)
- 1995Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish football player (b. 1921)
- 1995Harry Calder, South African cricketer (b. 1901)
- 1998Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)
- 2001June Salter, Australian actress (b. 1932)
- 2003Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (b. 1930)
- 2003Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
- 2003Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
- 2004Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948)
- 2004Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (b. 1931)
- 2005Guy Green, English cinematographer and film director (b. 1913)
- 2005Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
- 2006Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
- 2006Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
- 2006Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
- 2007Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (b. 1928)
- 2007Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1924)
- 2007Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (b. 1968)
- 2007Sir Jeremy Moore, British Army commander (b. 1928)
- 2008Richard Wright, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)
- 2008Stavros Paravas, Greek actor (b. 1935)
- 2009Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish film and TV screenwriter (b. 1932)
- 2010Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (b. 1949)
- 2011Frances Bay, Canadian actress (b. 1919)
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