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September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). There are 107 days remaining.

1 Events

• 608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope
• 921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
• 1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York.
• 1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
• 1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in MadridThis article is about the Spanish capital. For other entries, see Madrid (disambiguation). Coat of arms Madrid the capital of Spain, is located in the center of the country at 40°25'N, 3°45'W. As of 2003 census, population of the city of Madrid proper was is finished.
• 1590Events March 14 Battle of Ivry Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. May August Unsuccessful siege of Paris by Henry IV of France. Henry is forced to raise the siege when the Duke of Parma comes to it - Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VIIUrban VII ne Giovanni Battista Castagna ( August 4, 1521 September 27, 1590) was pope for thirteen days in September 1590, was of Genoese origin although born in Rome. He was chosen successor of Sixtus V on September 15, 1590, but died ( September 27) bef.
• 1620Events September 6 English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. The Mayflower Compact is signed on November 11. November 8 The Battle of White Mountain Two officers of the B - The Mayflower departs PlymouthThis article is about Plymouth, England. For articles about other uses of Plymouth, see Plymouth (disambiguation). Plymouth (Latitude: 50°25N, Longitude: 4°5W) is a city and unitary authority in South West England, situated in the traditional county of De, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England
• 1644Events February to August Explorer Abel Tasman's second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. April A popular Chinese rebellion led by Li Zicheng sacks Beijing, prompting Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dyn - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VIIUrban VII ne Giovanni Battista Castagna ( August 4, 1521 September 27, 1590) was pope for thirteen days in September 1590, was of Genoese origin although born in Rome. He was chosen successor of Sixtus V on September 15, 1590, but died ( September 27) bef as Innocent X.
• 1656 - England & France sign peace treaty.
• 1683 - Germantown, Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families.
• 1776 - British land at Kip's Bay during New York Campaign
• 1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
• 1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.

• 1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent
• 1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. (see also deaths, below)
• 1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galapagos Islands.
• 1857 - Timothy Alder patents the typesetting machine.
• 1862 - Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia
• 1873 - The last German troops leave France.
• 1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India
• 1894 - Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang
• 1914 - The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France
• 1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme
• 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold, to become known as penicillin, growing in his laboratory
• 1931 - The Invergordon Mutiny begins
• 1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship
• 1935 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika
• 1940 - The Battle of Britain ends with a Royal Air Force victory over the Luftwaffe.
• 1941 - 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.
• 1942 - The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
• 1943 - Benito Mussolini forms a fascist government in Italy to rival Adolf Hitler's.
• 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
• 1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond .
• 1946 - The Brooklyn Dodgers were beating the Chicago Cubs, 2-0, in the 5th inning when a swarm of gnats caused the game to be postponed.
• 1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 Vacuum tube
• 1948 - The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h.
• 1949 - The Lone Ranger premieres on ABC.
• 1950 - United States forces land at Incheon, Korea
• 1951 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes closes in New York City after 740 performances.
• 1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
• 1953 - Frank Sinatra plays Bill Miller's Riviera in Ft. Lee, New Jersey .
• 1954 - The U.S. Postal Service issues its 2¢ Thomas Jefferson Liberty Series stamp.
• 1955 - The I Love Lucy episode that featured John Wayne premieres.
• 1956 - Elvis Presley's Don't Be Cruel tops the singles sales charts at #1.
• 1957 - West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
• 1958 - A New Jersey commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48.
• 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States
• 1960 - Warren Spahn pitches a no-hitter for the New York Yankees.
• 1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
• 1962 - The Soviet ship Poltava is heading toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1963 - Four children are killed when a bomb explodes in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama
• 1964 - The Beatles play at a public auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1965 - Lost in Space premieres.
• 1966 - The spaceship Gemini XI, with astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon aboard, returns to earth.
• 1967 - Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
• 1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship was launched. It was the first spacecraft to fly around the moon and re-enter the earth's atmosphere.
• 1969 - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton sets a record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a single game.
• 1970 - Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan.
• 1971 - In a game against the Houston Astros, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 636th career home run, tying Ty Cobb for the number three spot of most home runs driven in.
• 1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
• 1975 - The French department of Corse, the entire island of Corsica was divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
• 1981 - Vanuatu is member of the UN
• 2004 - Davíð Oddsson the longest serving Prime Minister of Iceland, steps down after serving in office from 1991, and becomes minister for foreign affairs. At the time he was the longest serving PM in Europe