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What Happened on September 15th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
2017	The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
2011	Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.
2008	Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
2004	National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
2001	During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident resulting in him losing both his legs.
1995	Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
1983	Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1981	The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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, D.C.
1978	Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
1975	The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
1974	Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1972	A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta Airport.
1971	The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
1968	The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1967	U.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.
1963	Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1962	The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1959	Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1958	A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
1954	Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.
1952	The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1950	Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
1948	The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, Surriapet and Narkatpalli as part of Operation Polo.
1948	The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
1947	Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
1945	A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
1944	Battle 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.
1942	World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
1940	World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
1935	Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1918	World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
1916	World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1915	New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
1894	First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
1873	Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1862	American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
1835	HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1830	The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
1821	The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
1820	Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1816	HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
1812	The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1812	War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1795	Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic.
1794	French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.
1789	The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
1776	American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1762	Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1556	Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1530	Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano in Soriano Calabro, Calabria, Italy; commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church 1644–1912.
1440	Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.
994	Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.

Famous People Born on September 15

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Year	Name
1934	Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator (d. 2020)
1945	Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1979	Reece Young, New Zealand cricketer
1907	Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
1986	George Watsky, American hip-hop artist, poet and author
1925	Helle Virkner, Danish actress and singer (d. 2009)
1941	Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer (d. 2016)
1929	Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2015)
1984	Cyhi the Prynce, American rapper and producer
1991	Lee Jung-shin, South Korean musician and actor

Famous People Deaths On September 15

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Date	Name
1991	John Hoyt, American actor (b. 1904)
1813	Antoine Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (b. 1752)
921	Ludmila of Bohemia, Czech martyr and saint (b. 860)
2008	Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1943)
1794	Abraham Clark, American police officer and politician (b. 1725)
1596	Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535)
1649	John Floyd, English priest and educator (b. 1572)
1841	Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1757)
1231	Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1173)
1973	Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)