Historical Events In September - 15

1940  3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) on September - 15.   

1940  On September - 15 dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37   

1941  On September - 15 nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania   

1942  US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal on this day in history.   

1942  Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies on September - 15.   

1943  On September - 15 benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy   

1943  On this day in history hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2   

1944  British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs on this day in history.   

1945  A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond on this day in history.   

1945  Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61 on September - 15.   

1946  Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats on this day in history.   

1947  On this day in history first 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh   

1947  1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh on this day in history.   

1948  F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph on this day in history.   

1948  On this day in history "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances   

1949  The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV on September - 15.   

1950  During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south on this day in history.   

1950  Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79 on September - 15.   

1951  Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56 on September - 15.   

1952  On September - 15 uN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia   

1953  Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies on this day in history.   

1956  Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82 on September - 15.   

1958  On September - 15 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ   

1958  On September - 15 commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)   

1959  On this day in history soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit   

1961  On September - 15 hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph   

1962  On this day in history australia's first entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)   

1963  4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham on September - 15.   

1963  Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69 on September - 15.   

1964  Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies on this day in history.   

1965  "Lost in Space" premiers on this day in history.   

1966  On September - 15 gemini XI returns to Earth   

1967  On September - 15 eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78   

1968  Launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry on this day in history.   

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0973  On this day in history birth of al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)   

1254  On this day in history birth of marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)   

1505  On this day in history birth of maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)   

1533  Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572) was born on this day in history.   

1572  Erasmus Widmann, composer was born on this day in history.   

1580  On this day in history birth of charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)   

1586  Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer was born on September - 15.   

1613  On September - 15 birth of françois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)   

0009  Death of Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59 on this day in history.   

0668  On this day in history death of constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)   

0866  On this day in history death of robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria   

0921  Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies on September - 15.   

0928  On this day in history louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48   

1231  Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies on this day in history.   

1352  On this day in history death of ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)   

1500  Death of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.