On this day in History - Sep 15

0608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope.
0921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
0973 - Al-Biruni was born (d. 1048). Mathematician.
1500 - John Morton dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1514 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot was born (d. 1659). French lawyer
1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1590 - Giambattista Catagna is elected as Pope Urban VII.
1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf dies (b. 1535). German physician and botanist
1613 - Thomas Overbury dies murdered (b. 1581). English writer.
1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld was born (d. 1680). French writer.
1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork duies (b. 1566). Irish politician
1644 - Giambattista Pamfili becomes Pope Innocent X, succeeding Pope Urban VII.
1649 - Titus Oates was born (d. 1705). English minister and plotter.
1649 - John Floyd dies (b. 1572). English Jesuit preacher
1656 - England & France sign peace treaty.

1656 - Aclamação de Afonso VI como rei de Portugal
1683 - Germantown, Pennsylvania. is founded by 13 immigrant families.
1749 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moved outside Neptune's orbit to remain the outermost planet until 1979.
1700 - André Le Nôtre dies (b. 1613). French landscape architect
1701 - Edmé Boursault dies (b. 1638). French writer
1707 - George Stepney dies (b. 1663). English poet and diplomat
1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin dies. English politician
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel dies (b. 1690). German composer
1765 - Nascia, em Setúbal, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocageo (Elmano Sadino) (m. 21 Dez 1805). Poeta português, possivelmente, o maior representante do arcadismo lusitano
1776 - American Revolutionary War: British land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper was born (d. 1851). American novelist
1793 - Nasce Marquês de Sapucaí (m. 1875)
1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1821 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua jointly declare independence from Spain.
1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below).
1830 - Porfirio Díaz was born (d. 1915). President of Mexico.
1830 - William Huskisson dies. First rail fatality
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 - The HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
1842 - Francisco Morazán was born. Center American politician
1857 - William Howard Taft was born (d. 1930). President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice
1857 - Timothy Alder patents the typesetting machine.
1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies. Engineer.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1864 - John Hanning Speke dies. British explorer of Africa
1873 - Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1876 - Argentina: inicia su publicación The Buenos Aires Herald.
1876 - Bruno Walter was born (d. 1962). German conductor.
1879 - Joseph Lyons was born (d. 1939). Tenth Prime Minister of Australia
1881 - Ettore Bugatti was born (d. 1947). Automobile engineer and designer
1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa was born (d. 1950). Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer
1883 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
1885 - Jumbo dies (hit by a train). P. T. Barnum's circus elephant
1889 - Robert Benchley was born (d. 1945). Author
1890 - Agatha Christie was born (d. 1976). English writer (Death on the Nile ; And Then There Were None).

1890 - Frank Martin was born (d. 1974). Swiss composer.
1893 - Thomas Hawksley dies. Civil engineer.
1894 - Jean Renoir was born (d. 1979). French film director (Grand Illusion , The Rules of the Game)
1894 - First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang.
1898 - J. Slauerhoff was born. Dutch poet and novelist
1901 - Sir Donald Bailey was born (d. 1985). Civil engineer.
1903 - Roy Acuff was born (d. 1992). Country musician.
1903 - Fundação de um dos maiores clubes de futebol do Brasil: o Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
1904 - King Umberto II of Italy was born (d. 1983)
1907 - Fay Wray was born (d. 2004). Actress.
1908 - Penny Singleton was born (d. 2003). American actress.

1909 - Carlos Estrada was born. Uruguayan composer
1913 - John N. Mitchell was born (d. 1988). United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares was born (d. 1999). Argentine writer.
1914 - World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1915 - Igor Cassini was born (d. 2002). Fashion designer.
1916 - World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

1916 - Morre José Echegaray, dramaturgo e cientista espanhol.
1922 - Jackie Cooper was born. Actor, director
1924 - Bobby Short was born. Jazz musician
1924 - Lucebert was born. Dutch painter and poet
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre was born. French mathematician.
1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken dies (b. 1846). German writer who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1928 - Cannonball Adderley was born (d. 1975). Saxophonist and bandleader
1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Eva Burrows was born. Salvation Army General.

1929 - Nasce Varela Silva. Actor português.
1931 - In Scotland, the two-day Invergordon Mutiny against Royal Navy pay cuts begins.
1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos was born. Spanish conductor.

1933 - Nasce, em Boa Esperança - MG, Rubem Alves. Educador, psicanalista, teólogo, autor de livros infantis e poeta.
1933 - Henry Darrow was born. Actor
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
1935 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
1937 - Fernando de la Rúa was born. President of Argentina.
1938 - Lya Luft was born. Brazilian writer
1938 - Gaylord Perry was born. Baseball player
1940 - Merlin Olsen was born. American football player and actor.
1940 - World War II: 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 - World War II: 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.

1944 - Nasce Francisco Lucas Pires, professor universitário e político português.
1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1945 - Carmen Maura was born. Spanish actress.
1945 - Anton Webern dies. Austrian composer.

1945 - Jessye Norman was born. American opera singer.
1946 - Baseball: The Brooklyn Dodgers are beating the Chicago Cubs, 2-0, in the 5th inning when a swarm of gnats causes the game to be postponed.
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones was born. American actor
1946 - Oliver Stone was born. Film director (Platoon, JFK )
1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.

1947 - Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola assume a presidência do Equador
1948 - The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h.
1949 - The radio series The Lone Ranger premieres on the ABC.
1949 - Joe Barton was born. American politician
1950 - Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea.
1951 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes closes on Broadway in New York City after 740 performances.
1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1954 - The U.S. Postal Service issues its 2¢ Thomas Jefferson Liberty Series stamp.
1955 - The I Love Lucy episode featuring John Wayne premieres.
1957 - West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
1958 - A New Jersey commuter train crashes through a drawbridge, killing 48.
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
1961 - Dan Marino was born. American football player
1962 - The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 - The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1964 - The Beatles play at a public auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
1965 - The television series Lost in Space premieres.
1965 - Steve Brown dies (b. 1890). Jazz musician.
1966 - The spaceship Gemini XI, with astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon aboard, returns to earth.
1966 - Fernanda Torres, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Actress
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 is launched, becoing the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
1969 - Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton sets a record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a single game.
1971- Baseball: In a game against the Houston Astros, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 636th home run, tying Mickey Mantle for third spot on the career home runs list.
1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
1972 - Nasce Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano. Esposa do Príncipe Felipe, Princesa das Asturias.
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher dies (b. 1887). Archbishop of Canterbury.
1973 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden dies.
1973 - Secretariat wins the Marlboro Cup in world record time.
1974 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
1975 - The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
1976 - Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for eight days.
1976 - Paul Thomson was born. Drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks for the world heavyweight boxing title.
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary".
1980 - Bill Evans dies. Jazz musician

1981 - Vanuatu passa a ser membro da ONU
1981- The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to the United States Supreme Court.
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, DC.
1982 - The first issue of USA Today is published by Gannett.
1983 - Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1984 - Prince Harry of Wales was born.
1985 - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert begins.
1986 - First broadcast of the TV show LA Law on NBC.
1987 - 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.
1988 - Lillehammer, Norway, beats Anchorage, Alaska, United States, to host the 1994 Winter Olympics.
1989 - The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
1989 - Robert Penn Warren dies at 84. American Pulitzer Prize winning author.

1989 - O cineasta português João César Monteiro conquista o Prémio Leão de Prata do Festival de Veneza, com o filme Recordações da Casa Amarela

1990 - France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
1991- U.S. women's gymnastics team wins its first World Championship medal (silver).
1993 - Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament.

1993 - Morte de Maurice Yaméogo. Presidente de Burkina Faso (1960-1966)
1994 - Muslim fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 people in Algeria.
1997 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 1997

2000- In Australia the XXVII Olympic Games opened in Sidney
2001 - Alex Zanardi, driving in a CART race is injured in Germany, resulting in both legs being amputated below the knee.
2003 - Jack Brymer dies. British clarinetist
2003 - Josef Hirsal dies. Novelist.

2004 - Jogo entre a Roma e o Dínamo de Kiev é suspenso após agressão ao árbitro sueco Anders Frisk

2004 - José Néstor Pekerman aceita o cargo de técnico da seleção argentina de futebol
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
2004 - Johnny Ramone, dies (b. 1948). Guitarist (The Ramones)
In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.
RC Saints - Feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Also see September 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Britain - the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.
Independence Day from Spain (1821) for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Japan - Respect for the Aged Day before 2003; beginning in 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September.
Feriado municipal em Setúbal