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
- 668 –Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
- 994 –Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes.
- 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.
- 1762 –Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: British forces land at Kip’s Bay during the New York Campaign.
- 1812 –War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
- 1935 –Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
- 1942 –World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
- 1944 –Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps’ 1st Marine Division and the United States Army’s 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
- 1948 –The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 mph.
- 1952 –United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.
- 1966 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- 1972 –A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 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.
- 1983 –Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 1990 –France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- 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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