September 15 - Wikipedia

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

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Events

608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope
1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England
1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent
1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens. (see also deaths, below)
1862 - Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship
1950 - United States forces land at Inchon, Korea
1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States
1963 - Four children are killed when a bomb explodes in a black church in Birmingham, Alabama

1830 - William Huskisson, M.P., struck by George Stephenson's train engine `Rocket', at the opening of the Liverpool-Manchester line. The first rail fatality of history.
1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer
1898 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator
1989 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist

In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.