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
- 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.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip’s Bay during the New York Campaign.
- 1812 –The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1830 –The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.
- 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.
- 1873 –Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
- 1935 –The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1947 –RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
- 1947 –Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
- 1950 –Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
- 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
- 1972 –A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 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
- 1981 –Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1990 –France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- 1993 –Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament
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