What Happened On September 15

What Happened On Sep 15 Events

1254 Sep 15 Marco Polo is Born
The exact time and place of Marco Polo's birth are unknown, and current theories are mostly conjectural. However, the most quoted specific date is somewhere "around 1254", and it is gener...
1590 Sep 15 Giovanni Castagna (Urban VII) elected Pope
Pope Urban VII (4 August, 1521 – 27 September, 1590), born Giovanni Battista Castagna, was Pope for thirteen days in September 1590. He was of Genoese origin, although born in Rome. He wa...
1644 Sep 15 Giovanni Pamphilj (Pope Innocent X) elected Pope
Pope Innocent X (6 May 1574 –7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was Pope from 1644 to 1655.[1] Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to ...
1762 Sep 15 Battle Of Signal Hill
The Battle of Signal Hill (September 15, 1762) was a small skirmish, the last of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War. The British under Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst f...
1776 Sep 15 British Occupation of New York
On September 15, 1776, General Howe landed at Kip's Bay. General Washington's troops were spread so thinly here that he had to retreat and again saved many troops from being captured. Mea...
1776 Sep 15 Landing At Kip's Bay
The Landing at Kip's Bay was a British maneuver during the New York Campaign in the American Revolutionary War on September 15, 1776, occurring on the eastern shore of present-day Manhatt...
1847 Sep 15 Fall Of Mexico City
The Battle for Mexico City refers to the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City during the Mexican-American War. Included are...
1857 Sep 15 William Howard Taft Is Born
William Howard Taft served as both president of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft's father was a prom...
1858 Sep 15 Third Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Slave State Borders
MR. DOUGLAS’ SPEECH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I appear before you today in pursuance of a previous notice, and have made arrangements with Mr. Lincoln to divide time, and discuss with him...
1885 Sep 15 Jumbo the Elephant is Killed by a Locomotive
Jumbo's private car was some distance down the main line, and it was while walking to this that a shrill whistle signaled the approach of an oncoming freight train on the Grand Trunk rail...
1890 Sep 15 Agatha Christie is born
Dame Agatha Christie, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, bu...
1896 Sep 15 The Crash at Crush
Crush, Texas, was a temporary "city" established as a one-day publicity stunt in 1896. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (popularly known...
1935 Sep 15 Hitler Announces Nuremberg Laws
The following month two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg, becoming known as the Nuremberg Laws. Both measures were hastily improvised (there was even a short...
1940 Sep 15 Lossberg Study for the Invasion of the Soviet Union
Lossberg study is a German military plan prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard von Lossberg and developed under Alfred Jodl in OKW on September 15, 1940. Its northward direction of atta...
1940 Sep 15 Major RAF Victory, Later Commemorated as Battle of Britain Day
15 September was a day of heavy and sustained fighting. The Luftwaffe had flown over 1,000 sorties. Euphoric British pilots and anti-aircraft gunners claimed a magnificent total of 18...
1944 Sep 15
to 1944 Nov 27
 Battle of Peleliu
The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and Imperial Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September to November 1944 on...
1950 Sep 15
to 1950 Sep 19
 Battle of Inchon
The Battle of Inchon (Korean: 인천 상륙 작전, Hanja: 仁川上陸作戰, Incheon Sangnyuk Jakjeon; code name: Operation Arthur) was an amphibious invasion and battle of the Korean War that resulted in a de...
1954 Sep 15 Marilyn Monroe Films 'Skirt' Scene for The Seven Year Itch
The scene was originally filmed during the early morning hours of September 15, 1954, at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street. Heavily publicized beforehand, it attracted a thou...
1955 Sep 15 Lolita is Published in Paris
The novel's scandal-tinted history and its subject--the affair between a middle-aged sexual pervert and a twelve-year-old girl--inevitably conjure up expectations of pornography. But ther...
1958 Sep 15 Newark Bay Rail Accident
On Sept. 15, 1958, a commuter train left Bay Head at 8:27 a.m., carrying dozens of people to a routine day of work in New York. It never made it, instead plowing through three stop sig...
1963 Sep 15 The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama is Bombed
[A]bout 10:22 on that morning 34 years ago today, worshipers heard a clicking noise, like the very loud click of a clock. ''What was that?'' Sunday school teacher William Sturdivant had t...
1971 Sep 15 Deep Purple release Fireball
Fireball is an album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in 1971. It was their fifth studio album, and the second with the classic Mk II lineup. It was recorded at various times be...
1972 Sep 15 "The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie" Is Released
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (French: Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie) is a 1972 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel and written by Jean-Claude Carrière in collaboration ...
1978 Sep 15 Muhammad Ali reclaims heavyweight title from Leon Spinks
In February 1978, Ali lost the heavweight title to 1976 Olympics Champion Leon Spinks. On September 15, 1978, Ali fought a rematch in the New Orleans Louisiana Superdome against Spinks fo...
1978 Sep 15 "Studio Tan" by Frank Zappa Is Released
Studio Tan is an album by Frank Zappa, first released in September, 1978 on his own DiscReet Records label. In early 1976 Zappa's relationship with manager and business partner Herb Co...
1984 Sep 15 Prince Henry of Wales is born
Harry was born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, England, on 15 September 1984, the second child of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, younger broth...
1986 Sep 15 Stephen King publishes It
It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story is about seven children being terrorized by a malevolent monster - known as "It" - that takes the form of their deepes...
1989 Sep 15 "My 20th Century" Is Released
My 20th Century (Hungarian: Az én XX. századom) is a 1989 Hungarian comedy-drama film written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Enyedi won the Gold...
1989 Sep 15 Robert Penn Warren Dies
Writer, critic, and teacher Robert Penn Warren died on September 15, 1989. During his long and distinguished literary career, Warren was twice associated with the Library of Congress. In ...
1991 Sep 15 STS-48 Incident
On September 15, 1991, between 20:30 and 20:45 Greenwich Mean Time, the TV camera located at the back of Space Shuttle Discovery's cargo bay was trained on the Earth's horizon while the a...
1997 Sep 15 Google Search is Launched
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. student at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “...
1997 Sep 15 "google.com" registered as a domain
1997 Sep 15 Museum of Jewish Heritage Opens in Manhattan
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, in lower Manhattan, was created as a living memorial to the Holocaust. The hexagonal shape and tiered roof of the building are symbolic of the six points of...
1997 Sep 15
to 1998 Apr 7
 Savatage release The Wake of Magellan
The Wake of Magellan is a concept album by Savatage and is based on two real life events. The first, the Maersk Dubai incident, occurred less than a year before this album was released wh...
1998 Sep 15 Death releases The Sound of Perseverance
The Sound of Perseverance is the seventh and final album by American death metal band Death. The album was released on September 15, 1998 through Nuclear Blast. The album, in particula...
1999 Sep 15 FDA Approves Pfizer's Ellence
Ellence is a cancer medication that interferes with the growth of cancer cells and slows their growth and spread in the body. The exact way it works is not fully understood. Ellence is...
2000 Sep 15 FDA Approves Abbott's Kaletra
Kaletra, a combination of antiviral medications lopinavir and ritonavir, belongs to a group of HIV medicines called protease inhibitors. These medicines prevents human immunodeficiency vi...
2000 Sep 15
to 2000 Oct 1
 Games of the XXVII Olympiad Held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event whic...
2001 Sep 15 Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse
Four loaded barges crashed into the Queen Isabella Causeway (Texas' longest bridge) taking out a 240 foot section of the bridge. The Brown Water V tug and its barges crashed into one of ...
2001 Sep 15 Stephen King publishes Black House
Black House is a novel by horror writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. Published in 2001, this is the sequel to The Talisman. This is one of King's many mainstream novels, which also ...
2004 Sep 15 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 8-6
It was uglier than a Muddy River bullfrog, but with the Yankees playing actual baseball again and another Battle of the Bronx beginning tomorrow, the Red Sox didn't care about style point...
2005 Sep 15 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 1 Ep. 7 - "Charlie Got Molested"
When they mistakenly conclude that Charlie was molested by his former gym teacher, Dennis and Dee stage an intervention, and Mac is strangely jealous.
2005 Sep 15 Oakland Athletics defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-2
Adversity, Terry Francona has contended this week, will make the Sox better. Always has, at least in his time here. But, adversity has taken on the form of less-than-ideal health and cree...
2006 Sep 15 Call of Juarez released
Call of Juarez is a Western-themed first-person shooter from the Polish developer Techland. First released for Windows in 2006, it was ported to the Xbox 360 on June 5, 2007. The North Am...
2006 Sep 15 "Crossroads" Rifftrax is Released
Among the finest Britney Spears movies ever made, Crossroads* tells the story of a high school graduate who drives to L.A. Not very exciting on paper, but up on the big screen, it's a dri...
2006 Sep 15 Napalm Death release Smear Campaign
Smear Campaign is the thirteenth album by the band Napalm Death released in 2006. It was released as a regular CD and as a digipak edition, featuring two bonus tracks and a sticker of the...
2007 Sep 15 Boston Red Sox defeat New York Yankees, 10-1
To his everlasting credit, Jorge Posada somehow held onto the ball. But as a symbol of the Red Sox' ferocious response to their late-inning meltdown the night before, nothing yesterday af...
2007 Sep 15 "See You Again" Is Released
"See You Again" is a song performed by American pop singer Miley Cyrus. The song is the second official single from her debut solo album Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus, it was written ...
2007 Sep 15 Toronto Blue Jays defeat Baltimore Orioles, 8-3
TORONTO -- Before leaving Rogers Centre on Friday night, Orioles pitcher Kurt Birkins found the team's video coordinator to request a tape of that night's game, which provided hard eviden...
2008 Sep 15 Boston Red Sox defeat Tampa Bay Rays, 13-5
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --The Tampa Bay Rays have been resilient all season, so manager Joe Maddon is not going to start doubting his team now. A day after Boston closed within percentage...