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Events on the 15th of September in history

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15 Sep 0608 St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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15 Sep 0668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
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15 Sep 0921 At Tetin, Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law.
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15 Sep 0994 Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
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15 Sep 1440 Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
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15 Sep 1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York
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15 Sep 1556 Vlissingen ex-Emperor Charles V returns to Spain
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15 Sep 1556 Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
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15 Sep 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
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15 Sep 1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
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15 Sep 1616 The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
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15 Sep 1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims
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15 Sep 1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga
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15 Sep 1644 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
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15 Sep 1656 England and France sign peace treaty
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15 Sep 1683 Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
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15 Sep 1733 King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
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15 Sep 1762 Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
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15 Sep 1774 Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
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15 Sep 1776 American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
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15 Sep 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution
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15 Sep 1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
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15 Sep 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.
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15 Sep 1789 Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Dept of State
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15 Sep 1795 Cape Colony surrenders to England
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15 Sep 1812 The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
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15 Sep 1812 War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
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15 Sep 1816 HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar
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15 Sep 1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
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15 Sep 1821 Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
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15 Sep 1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
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15 Sep 1830 1st National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
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15 Sep 1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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15 Sep 1830 The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
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15 Sep 1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
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15 Sep 1831 The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
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15 Sep 1835 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
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15 Sep 1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
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15 Sep 1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
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15 Sep 1851 Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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15 Sep 1853 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
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15 Sep 1857 Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
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15 Sep 1862 Confederates conquer Union - weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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15 Sep 1862 American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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15 Sep 1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry
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15 Sep 1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
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15 Sep 1873 Last German troops leave France
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15 Sep 1873 Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
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15 Sep 1879 Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
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15 Sep 1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
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15 Sep 1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
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15 Sep 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
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15 Sep 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
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15 Sep 1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester, New York
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15 Sep 1899 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore Country Club - Maryland
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15 Sep 1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
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15 Sep 1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
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15 Sep 1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
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15 Sep 1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
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15 Sep 1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
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15 Sep 1913 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, New York
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15 Sep 1914 US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
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15 Sep 1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
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15 Sep 1915 Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1
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15 Sep 1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
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15 Sep 1916 Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
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15 Sep 1916 World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
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15 Sep 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
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15 Sep 1918 CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
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15 Sep 1921 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
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15 Sep 1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
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15 Sep 1922 Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
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15 Sep 1923 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
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15 Sep 1923 Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
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15 Sep 1923 Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
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15 Sep 1926 Failed attempt on Mussolini
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15 Sep 1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
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15 Sep 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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15 Sep 1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
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15 Sep 1930 1st International bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
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15 Sep 1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
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15 Sep 1931 Philadelphia Athletics clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
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15 Sep 1935 The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
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15 Sep 1935 Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
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15 Sep 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship & makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
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15 Sep 1937 WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
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15 Sep 1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
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15 Sep 1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pittsburgh)
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15 Sep 1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
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15 Sep 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
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15 Sep 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
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15 Sep 1940 World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
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15 Sep 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
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15 Sep 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
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15 Sep 1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
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15 Sep 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
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15 Sep 1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
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15 Sep 1942 World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by a Japanese torpedo at Guadalcanal.
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15 Sep 1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
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15 Sep 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
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15 Sep 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
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15 Sep 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
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15 Sep 1944 Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
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15 Sep 1944 US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
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15 Sep 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
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15 Sep 1944 US troops lands on Palau and Morotai
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15 Sep 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
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15 Sep 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.
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15 Sep 1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
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15 Sep 1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
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15 Sep 1947 RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
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15 Sep 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
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15 Sep 1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
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15 Sep 1947 Yanks clinch pennant #15
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15 Sep 1948 "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
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15 Sep 1948 The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).
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15 Sep 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
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15 Sep 1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM
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15 Sep 1949 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV
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15 Sep 1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1949 The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV
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15 Sep 1950 East German Premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
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15 Sep 1950 For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
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15 Sep 1950 UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
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15 Sep 1950 US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
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15 Sep 1950 Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
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15 Sep 1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south
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15 Sep 1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
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15 Sep 1950 Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 homers (6th time he has done that)
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15 Sep 1951 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 performances
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15 Sep 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
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15 Sep 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
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15 Sep 1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
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15 Sep 1952 The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
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15 Sep 1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
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15 Sep 1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1953 WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
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15 Sep 1955 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins
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15 Sep 1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
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15 Sep 1957 Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
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15 Sep 1957 San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
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15 Sep 1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport, New Jersey
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15 Sep 1958 A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
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15 Sep 1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
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15 Sep 1959 Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
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15 Sep 1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
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15 Sep 1960 France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
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15 Sep 1961 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
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15 Sep 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
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15 Sep 1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
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15 Sep 1962 Kansas City Athletics Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1 / 3 innings without a walk
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15 Sep 1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1962 The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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15 Sep 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
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15 Sep 1963 Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, and Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn
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15 Sep 1963 Ben Bella elected 1st President of Algeria
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15 Sep 1963 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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15 Sep 1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
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15 Sep 1963 SF Giants play outfield of Felipe, Matty & Jesus Alou
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15 Sep 1964 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
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15 Sep 1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
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15 Sep 1965 "Lost in Space" premieres
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15 Sep 1965 "Lost in Space" premiers
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15 Sep 1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
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15 Sep 1966 Gemini XI (Conrad / Gordon) returns to Earth
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15 Sep 1966 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.
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15 Sep 1966 Gemini XI returns to Earth
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15 Sep 1967 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1968 "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
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15 Sep 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
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15 Sep 1968 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
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15 Sep 1968 New York Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa and D S Harada
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15 Sep 1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
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15 Sep 1968 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1968 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1968 The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
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15 Sep 1968 Launch of Zond 5, the 1st lunar flyaround with Earth reentry. Probable test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
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15 Sep 1969 Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game
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15 Sep 1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
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15 Sep 1970 Rotterdam harbor strikes end
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15 Sep 1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
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15 Sep 1971 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV
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15 Sep 1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1972 A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
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15 Sep 1973 "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV
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15 Sep 1973 Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
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15 Sep 1973 "Star Trek-Animated" premiers on TV
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15 Sep 1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
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15 Sep 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
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15 Sep 1974 Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
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15 Sep 1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
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15 Sep 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)
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15 Sep 1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
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15 Sep 1977 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances
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15 Sep 1977 Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)
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15 Sep 1977 President Carter meets with 15 record company execs
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15 Sep 1977 Rock Music Award
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15 Sep 1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
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15 Sep 1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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15 Sep 1978 Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
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15 Sep 1978 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks
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15 Sep 1978 Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2
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15 Sep 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for the cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
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15 Sep 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
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15 Sep 1981 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism / marxism
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15 Sep 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
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15 Sep 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.
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15 Sep 1981 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
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15 Sep 1981 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
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15 Sep 1982 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
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15 Sep 1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
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15 Sep 1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
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15 Sep 1983 Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway
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15 Sep 1983 Israel Premier Begin resigns
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15 Sep 1983 Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
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15 Sep 1984 Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
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15 Sep 1984 Morocco Showcase opens
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15 Sep 1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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15 Sep 1985 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
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15 Sep 1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
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15 Sep 1985 Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
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15 Sep 1985 European team beats US team for golf's Ryders Cup (1st since 1957)
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15 Sep 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
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15 Sep 1987 United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
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15 Sep 1988 "Les Miserables, " opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
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15 Sep 1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
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15 Sep 1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
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15 Sep 1990 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win
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15 Sep 1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
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15 Sep 1990 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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15 Sep 1990 France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
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15 Sep 1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
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15 Sep 1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
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15 Sep 1991 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
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15 Sep 1991 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
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15 Sep 1991 "The Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
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15 Sep 1991 SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds
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15 Sep 1992 Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat
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15 Sep 1993 Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
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15 Sep 1994 "Sound of Motown, " premieres in Rotterdam
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15 Sep 1994 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten
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15 Sep 1994 Moslem fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria
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15 Sep 1995 Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
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15 Sep 1996 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
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15 Sep 1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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15 Sep 1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
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15 Sep 1997 Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
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15 Sep 1998 With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
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15 Sep 2000 The Games of the XXVII Olympiad begin in Sydney, Australia.
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15 Sep 2004 National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
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15 Sep 2008 Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
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