Historical Events on September 15

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• 608 Saint Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy
• 921 Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin

• 1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Archbishop of York

• 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
• 1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
• 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
• 1616 First non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy
• 1619 Prince Bethlen Gabor's troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
• 1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga

• 1655 The Peach War: Munsee attack Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, killing about 40 colonists, possibly in retaliation for the murder of a Munsee woman picking peaches
• 1656 England & France sign peace treaty
• 1683 Germantown in Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families
• 1707 Ferenc Rákóczi II, Prince of Transylvania and Tsar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
• 1733 King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
• 1762 Battle of Signal Hill, the last battle of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War
• 1774 Cossack pretender to the Russian throne Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev captured
• 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay, Manhattan, during Revolution

• 1787 -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
• 1789 US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State

• 1795 Dutch East India controlled Cape Colony (present day South Africa) surrenders to Britain

• 1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal
• 1821 Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua declare their independence from the Spanish Empire
• 1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
• 1830 First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
• 1830 First passenger to be killed by a railway train (William Huskisson in England)
• 1831 The locomotive "John Bull" operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad

• 1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
• 1851 Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1853 Antoinette Blackwell is the first US woman to be ordained a minister
• 1857 Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine
• 1862 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• 1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
• 1873 Last German troops leave France
• 1879 Pim Mulier forms Royal Haarlemsche Football Club based in Haarlem, Netherlands; oldest existing club in Dutch football
• 1882 British General Wolseley occupies Cairo
• 1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
• 1893 "Svoboda", Ukrainian language weekly newspaper founded by Father Hryhorii Hrushka, in Jersey City, New Jersey; expands to daily in 1921, reverts to weekly in 1998
• 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
• 1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
• 1900 A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa
• 1902 Chicago Cubs infielders Tinker, Evers, & Chance turn their first double play together in a 6-3 win over Cincinnati

• 1910 Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
• 1912 Boston Red Sox pitcher "Smoky" Joe Wood ties then MLB record of 16 straight wins with a 2-1 victory over St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park
• 1912 War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
• 1913 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
• 1914 First Battle of Aisne finishes, Germans vs. French & British during WWI
• 1914 US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico

• 1917 Forbes Magazine founded by B. C. Forbes and Walter Drey in the US
• 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government

• 1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
• 1922 Philadelphia catcher Butch Henline becomes first NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 during Phillies' 10-9 win over St. Louis Cardinals at the Baker Bowl
• 1923 Governor Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of Ku Klux Klan terror

• 1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
• 1928 Kent leg-spinner Alfred "Tich" Freeman takes 2-102 and 4-75 for Rest of England vs Lancashire to become the only bowler to take 300 wickets (304) in an English cricket season

• 1928 St. Louis Cardinals set NL record of 18 men left-on-base; still beat Phillies, 8-6 at the Baker Bowl, Philadelphia
• 1928 Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy" premieres in NYC
• 1930 1st international bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
• 1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
• 1931 Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
• 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
• 1937 Works Progress Administration (WPA) extends L-Taraval streetcar line to San Francisco Zoo, at Sloat Blvd (San Francisco, California)

• 1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
• 1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
• 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)

• 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)

• 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania
• 1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal

• 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
• 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
• 1944 British bombers hit German battleship Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
• 1944 Soviet troops free Sofia, Bulgaria
• 1944 US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
• 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
• 1944 US troops land on islands of Palau and Morotai, western Pacific
• 1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond
• 1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
• 1947 First four-engined jet-propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio
• 1947 RCA releases the 12AX7 miniature dual triode vacuum tube; it is still in production
• 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750
• 1947 Yanks clinch pennant #15
• 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
• 1948 WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM
• 1949 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!
• 1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
• 1950 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
• 1950 For a record 6th time, NY Yankees' first baseman Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
• 1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
• 1950 US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
• 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)

• 1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
• 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
• 1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins

• 1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game

• 1958 Commuter train crashes off an open drawbridge, killing 48 in Bayonne, New Jersey

• 1961 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus aged 21
• 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1963 Ahmed Ben Bella is elected as first president of the newly independent Algeria
• 1963 Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty, & Jesús - appear in San Francisco Giants outfield for 1 inning in a 13-5 win over Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
• 1963 Church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls

• 1963 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
• 1964 The Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio; police stop show during third song as some of the crowd climbed on the stage, after a 10 minute delay, and warning audience to stay seated, the concert resumed with the.
• 1965 US TV series "Lost in Space" premieres

• 1966 Dutch political party (D'66) forms
• 1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched
• 1966 Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth

• 1967 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1968 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
• 1968 NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
• 1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
• 1968 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1968 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1970 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed
• 1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
• 1970 Rotterdam dock strikes end
• 1971 1st broadcast of "Columbo" starring Peter Falk on NBC
• 1972 A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
• 1972 An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.

• 1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1973 Dutch Guilder devalued by 5%
• 1973 Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
• 1973 OPEC supports price hikes and designates six Gulf countries to negotiate collectively with companies over prices; other members to negotiate individually

• 1974 Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
• 1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
• 1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
• 1975 The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
• 1976 Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC
• 1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days

• 1977 TV LA drama "CHiPs" debuts on NBC in US
• 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans

• 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 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.

• 1981 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1982 First issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
• 1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
• 1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
• 1983 Frances Schreuder is convicted for the first-degree murder of Franklin Bradshaw

• 1983 Police officers beat Michael Stewart to death for graffiting NYC subway
• 1984 Morocco Showcase opens
• 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1985 MLB New York Yankees trade 25-year-old pitching prospect Jim Deshaies to Houston Astros for 40-year-old pitcher Joe Niekro

• 1986 1st broadcast of legal drama "L.A. Law" created by Steven Bochco, with ensemble cast including Corbin Bersen, Jill Eikenberry and Harry Hamlin on NBC
• 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
• 1987 Italy sends a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf
• 1987 Pope John Paul II arrives in Los Angeles for a two-day papal visit, and addresses U.S. entertainment leaders
• 1987 US Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork
• 1988 Lillehammer, Norway, upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
• 1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
• 1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
• 1989 The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
• 1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
• 1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
• 1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
• 1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show

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