September 15th Events |
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| September 15th, 2004 (September 15 2004) | Event | NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office. | |
| September 15th, 1998 (September 15 1998) | Event | WorldCom and MCI Communications finish their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest bankruptcy in United States history. | |
| September 15th, 1997 (September 15 1997) | Event | Google was founded. | |
| September 15th, 1993 (September 15 1993) | Event | Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament | |
| September 15th, 1990 (September 15 1990) | Event | France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf | |
| September 15th, 1989 (September 15 1989) | Event | The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson s continued captivity in Beirut. | |
| September 15th, 1987 (September 15 1987) | Event | 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. | Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes |
| September 15th, 1983 (September 15 1983) | Event | Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns. | Menachem Begin Quotes |
| September 15th, 1981 (September 15 1981) | Event | The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court. | |
| September 15th, 1981 (September 15 1981) | Event | 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. | |
| September 15th, 1981 (September 15 1981) | Event | Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. | |
| September 15th, 1975 (September 15 1975) | Event | The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. | |
| September 15th, 1974 (September 15 1974) | Event | Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Event | A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois. | |
| September 15th, 1972 (September 15 1972) | Event | An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmo-Bulltofta Airport. | |
| September 15th, 1968 (September 15 1968) | Event | The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth s atmosphere. | |
| September 15th, 1966 (September 15 1966) | Event | 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. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| September 15th, 1963 (September 15 1963) | Event | The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. | |
| September 15th, 1962 (September 15 1962) | Event | The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| September 15th, 1961 (September 15 1961) | Event | Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour. | |
| September 15th, 1959 (September 15 1959) | Event | Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| September 15th, 1958 (September 15 1958) | Event | A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58. | |
| September 15th, 1957 (September 15 1957) | Event | West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor. | |
| September 15th, 1952 (September 15 1952) | Event | United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. | |
| September 15th, 1950 (September 15 1950) | Event | Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea. | |
| September 15th, 1948 (September 15 1948) | Event | The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h. | |
| September 15th, 1947 (September 15 1947) | Event | The U.S. Air Force is separated from the US Army to become a separate branch. | |
| September 15th, 1947 (September 15 1947) | Event | RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. | |
| September 15th, 1945 (September 15 1945) | Event | A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond. | |
| September 15th, 1944 (September 15 1944) | Event | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| September 15th, 1942 (September 15 1942) | Event | World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal. | |
| September 15th, 1941 (September 15 1941) | Event | The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act. | |
| September 15th, 1940 (September 15 1940) | Event | World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoot down large numbers of Luftwaffe. | |
| September 15th, 1935 (September 15 1935) | Event | Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. | |
| September 15th, 1935 (September 15 1935) | Event | Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika. | |
| September 15th, 1931 (September 15 1931) | Event | In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins. | |
| September 15th, 1928 (September 15 1928) | Event | Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. | |
| September 15th, 1928 (September 15 1928) | Event | Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season. | |
| September 15th, 1916 (September 15 1916) | Event | World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme. | |
| September 15th, 1914 (September 15 1914) | Event | World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. | |
| September 15th, 1894 (September 15 1894) | Event | First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang. | |
| September 15th, 1883 (September 15 1883) | Event | The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. | |
| September 15th, 1873 (September 15 1873) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity. | |
| September 15th, 1862 (September 15 1862) | Event | American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia. | |
| September 15th, 1851 (September 15 1851) | Event | Saint Joseph s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| September 15th, 1835 (September 15 1835) | Event | The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galapagos Islands. | Charles Darwin Quotes |
| September 15th, 1831 (September 15 1831) | Event | The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. | |
| September 15th, 1830 (September 15 1830) | Event | The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below). | |
| September 15th, 1821 (September 15 1821) | Event | Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain. | |
| September 15th, 1820 (September 15 1820) | Event | Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal s crises of the Nineteenth Century. | |
| September 15th, 1812 (September 15 1812) | Event | The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow. | |
| September 15th, 1789 (September 15 1789) | Event | The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs). | |
| September 15th, 1776 (September 15 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: British land at Kip s Bay during the New York Campaign. | |
| September 15th, 1762 (September 15 1762) | Event | Battle of Signal Hill | |
| September 15th, 1683 (September 15 1683) | Event | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families. | |
| September 15th, 1616 (September 15 1616) | Event | The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy. | |
| September 15th, 1600 (September 15 1600) | Event | Battle of Sekigahara | |
| September 15th, 1584 (September 15 1584) | Event | San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished. | |
| September 15th, 1556 (September 15 1556) | Event | Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain. | |
| September 15th, 0921 (September 15 0921) | Event | Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin. | |
| September 15th, 0668 (September 15 0668) | Event | Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. | |
