Page 6: 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  Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania on September - 15.   

1942  On September - 15 uS aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal   

1942  On this day in history jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies   

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

1943  Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2 on September - 15.   

1944  On September - 15 british bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs   

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

1945  Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats   

1947  First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh on September - 15.   

1947  On September - 15 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh   

1948  On this day in history f-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph   

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 September - 15.   

1950  Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1951  Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1952  UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia on this day in history.   

1953  Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies on September - 15.   

1956  Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1958  48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ on this day in history.   

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

1959  On September - 15 soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit   

1961  Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph on September - 15.   

1962  On September - 15 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 this day in history.   

1963  On September - 15 fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69   

1964  On September - 15 robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies   

1965  "Lost in Space" premiers on September - 15.   

1966  On this day in history gemini XI returns to Earth   

1967  Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1968  Launch of Zond 5, the first lunar fly around with Earth reentry on September - 15.   

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0973  On September - 15 birth of al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)   

1254  Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324) was born on September - 15.   

1505  On September - 15 birth of maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)   

1533  On this day in history birth of catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)   

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 this day in history.   

1613  François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680) was born on this day in history.   

0009  Death of Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59 on September - 15.   

0668  Death of Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630) on this day in history.   

0866  Death of Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria on this day in history.   

0921  On September - 15 ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies   

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  Death of Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273) on this day in history.   

1500  On this day in history death of john Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury