About September 15
September 15, 2024 is the 259th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 136 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 15
- 1762 –Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- 1789 –The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the “Department of Foreign Affairs”).
- 1812 –The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1831 –The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1835 –HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
- 1851 –Saint Joseph’s University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1894 –First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
- 1935 –Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1935 –The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1940 –World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
- 1945 –A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
- 1958 –A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 58.
- 1961 –Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
- 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: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- 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 –The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1983 –Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 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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