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On this day - September 15
994 — Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle ...
1440 — Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is ...
1530 — Appearance of the miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic in ...
1556 — Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ...
1762 — Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 — American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip's ...
1789 — The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", ...
1794 — French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of ...
1795 — Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to ...
1812 — War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort ...
1812 — The Grande Armée under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow ...
1813 — Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attack ...
1816 — HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
1820 — Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
1821 — The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from ...
1830 — The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens; British MP ...
1835 — HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos ...
1862 — American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, ...
1873 — Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops ...
1894 — First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the ...
1915 — New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth ...
1916 — World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at ...
1918 — World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian ...
1935 — Nazi Germany announces two new laws related to race and the ...
1935 — Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1940 — World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the ...
1942 — World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by ...
1944 — World War II: The Battle of Peleliu begins as the United ...
1944 — Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as ...
1945 — A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, ...
1947 — Typhoon Kathleen hits the Kantō region, in Japan killing ...
1948 — The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 ...
1948 — The Indian Army captures the towns of Jalna, Latur, Mominabad, ...
1950 — Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.
1952 — The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
1954 — Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during ...
1958 — A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through ...
1959 — Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the ...
1962 — The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events ...
1963 — Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the ...
1966 — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper ...
1968 — The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first ...
1971 — The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest ...
1972 — A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg ...
1974 — Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while ...
1975 — The French department of "Corse" (the entire island ...
1978 — At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon ...
1981 — The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in ...
1981 — The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day ...
1983 — Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
1995 — Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in ...
2001 — During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former ...
2004 — National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces ...
2008 — Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest ...
2011 — Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining ...
2017 — The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
2020 — Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs ...