Page 6: Historical Events In September - 15

1940  3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) on this day in history.   

1940  Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1941  Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania on September - 15.   

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

1942  Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies on this day in history.   

1943  On this day in history benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy   

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

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  On September - 15 anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61   

1946  On September - 15 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  1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh on this day in history.   

1948  On September - 15 f-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph   

1948  On September - 15 "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances   

1949  On September - 15 the Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV   

1950  On this day in history during Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south   

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  On September - 15 jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies   

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

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

1958  Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1963  On this day in history 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham   

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  On September - 15 "Lost in Space" premiers   

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  Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048) was born on September - 15.   

1254  On September - 15 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 September - 15.   

1572  On September - 15 birth of erasmus Widmann, composer   

1580  Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659) was born on this day in history.   

1586  On this day in history birth of cristobal de Isla Diego, composer   

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

0009  On this day in history death of publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59   

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