NOW for your THIS DAY IN HISTORY REPORT

09/15/0009 - Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
09/15/0053 - Birth-Mark U Trajanus, 13th Roman emperor (98 117)/conqueror of Ctesiphon
09/15/0608 - St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
09/15/0921 - Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies
09/15/0928 - Louis III, the Blind Provenýaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48
09/15/1231 - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies
09/15/1505 - Birth-Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)
09/15/1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
09/15/1525 - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
09/15/1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain
09/15/1572 - Birth-Erasmus Widmann, composer
09/15/1584 - Birth-Georg R Weckerlin, German poet (Oden und Ges“nge)
09/15/1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
09/15/1586 - Birth-Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer
09/15/1590 - Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
09/15/1598 - Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
09/15/1613 - Birth-Franýoise duc de la Rochefoucald, Paris France, writer (M’moires)
09/15/1619 - Prince Bethlen G bors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
09/15/1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8]
09/15/1621 - Swedish troops occupy Riga
09/15/1644 - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
09/15/1654 - Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61
09/15/1656 - England & France sign peace treaty
09/15/1683 - Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
09/15/1685 - Birth-Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
09/15/1690 - Birth-Ignazio Prota, composer
09/15/1707 - R k¢czi II & Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
09/15/1733 - King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
09/15/1736 - Birth-Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France)
09/15/1744 - Birth-Georg Ritschel, composer
09/15/1747 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
09/15/1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59
09/15/1764 - Birth-Friedrich Heine, composer
09/15/1764 - Birth-Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
09/15/1774 - Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
09/15/1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
09/15/1780 - Birth-Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer (Esprit, origin et progr s)
09/15/1787 - -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
09/15/1789 - Birth-James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major US novelist (Last of Mohicans)
09/15/1789 - Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed Dept of State
09/15/1795 - Cape Colony surrenders to England
09/15/1808 - Birth-Louis Clapisson, composer
09/15/1811 - Birth-Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
09/15/1811 - Birth-Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
09/15/1812 - French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
09/15/1816 - Birth-Edward Wolff, composer
09/15/1821 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
09/15/1830 - 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
09/15/1830 - 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
09/15/1830 - Birth-Jos’ de la Cruz Porfirio D¡az, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
09/15/1830 - Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
09/15/1834 - Birth-Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
09/15/1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
09/15/1837 - Birth-Leo van Gheluwe, composer
09/15/1840 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47
09/15/1841 - Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
09/15/1842 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
09/15/1843 - Birth-Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange/son of king Willem III
09/15/1846 - Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
09/15/1851 - Birth-Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra)
09/15/1851 - Birth-Josif Marinkovic, composer
09/15/1852 - Birth-Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor (shoe lacing machine)
09/15/1853 - 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
09/15/1857 - Birth-William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
09/15/1857 - Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
09/15/1858 - Birth-Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
09/15/1858 - Birth-Jeno Hubay, composer
09/15/1859 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
09/15/1862 - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
09/15/1862 - R E V Miles, US Union Colonel (general?), killed at Harpers Ferry
09/15/1863 - Birth-Horatio William Parker, composer
09/15/1865 - Birth-Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie)
09/15/1865 - Birth-Nicolaus Adriani, linguist (Middle-Celebes languages)
09/15/1868 - Birth-Dirk B Nanninga, Dutch painter
09/15/1870 - Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
09/15/1873 - Last German troops leave France
09/15/1875 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
09/15/1876 - Birth-Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
09/15/1876 - Birth-Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
09/15/1879 - Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
09/15/1880 - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
09/15/1881 - Birth-Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
09/15/1882 - British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
09/15/1883 - Joseph AF Plateau, Belg physicist (Blue Moon), dies
09/15/1884 - Birth-Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
09/15/1885 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
09/15/1887 - Birth-Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss statues artist/poet
09/15/1887 - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
09/15/1888 - Birth-Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian (Ordre the St Beno‘t)
09/15/1889 - Birth-Robert Benchley, Worcester MA, humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
09/15/1890 - Birth-Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on Orient Express)
09/15/1890 - Birth-Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo)
09/15/1890 - Birth-Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
09/15/1894 - Birth-Jean Renoir, French director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion)
09/15/1894 - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
09/15/1895 - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
09/15/1896 - Birth-Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer
09/15/1898 - Birth-John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)
09/15/1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
09/15/1899 - 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
09/15/1899 - Birth-Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State)
09/15/1900 - Birth-Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes)
09/15/1902 - Birth-Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania
09/15/1903 - Birth-Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
09/15/1903 - Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
09/15/1904 - Birth-Tom Conway, Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
09/15/1904 - Birth-Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy (1946)
09/15/1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
09/15/1906 - Birth-Kathryn Murray, Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
09/15/1906 - Birth-Penny Singleton, Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
09/15/1907 - Birth-Bengt G Ekel"f, Swedish poet (Sent pÝ jorden)
09/15/1907 - Birth-Jack Bailey, Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
09/15/1908 - Birth-Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain)
09/15/1909 - Birth-Carlos Estrada, composer
09/15/1909 - Birth-Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
09/15/1909 - Birth-Phil Arnold, NJ, actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees)
09/15/1910 - Birth-George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
09/15/1910 - Birth-Richard Baerlein, racing writer
09/15/1910 - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
09/15/1911 - Birth-Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
09/15/1912 - Birth-Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
09/15/1912 - Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
09/15/1912 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
09/15/1913 - 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
09/15/1913 - Birth-Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
09/15/1913 - Birth-Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
09/15/1913 - Birth-John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
09/15/1913 - Birth-Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer
09/15/1914 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
09/15/1914 - Birth-Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)
09/15/1914 - Birth-Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71 72)
09/15/1914 - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
09/15/1914 - US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
09/15/1915 - Birth-Helmut Schoen, football coach
09/15/1915 - Birth-John Conte, Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
09/15/1915 - Boston Braves beat St Louis Cards 20-1
09/15/1916 - 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
09/15/1916 - Birth-Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
09/15/1916 - Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
09/15/1916 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
09/15/1917 - Birth-Richard Arnell, composer
09/15/1917 - Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
09/15/1918 - CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
09/15/1919 - Birth-Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist (world record 45,798 km)
09/15/1921 - Birth-Jackie Cooper, LA Calif, actor/director (Hennesey, People's Choice)
09/15/1921 - Birth-Jan Frank Fischer, composer
09/15/1921 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
09/15/1921 - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies
09/15/1921 - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
09/15/1922 - Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
09/15/1923 - 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
09/15/1923 - Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
09/15/1923 - Birth-Anton Heiller, composer
09/15/1923 - Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
09/15/1923 - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
09/15/1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
09/15/1924 - Birth-Bobby Short, Danville Ill, singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
09/15/1924 - Birth-Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist (Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967)
09/15/1925 - Birth-Forrest Compton, Reading Pa, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night)
09/15/1926 - Failed attempt on Mussolini
09/15/1927 - Birth-Norm Crosby, Boston Mass, comedian/double talker (Liar's Club)
09/15/1927 - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
09/15/1928 - 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
09/15/1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
09/15/1928 - Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
09/15/1928 - Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC
09/15/1929 - Birth-Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
09/15/1929 - Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58
09/15/1930 - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
09/15/1931 - British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
09/15/1931 - Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
09/15/1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
09/15/1933 - Birth-Henry Darrow, NYC, actor (Harry O, New Dick Van Dyke Show)
09/15/1933 - Birth-Rafael Fr beck de Burgos, Burgos, Spain, conductor (World of Song)
09/15/1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
09/15/1935 - Birth-Jacques d'Ancona, journalist/TV host (Sound-Mix Show)
09/15/1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
09/15/1936 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
09/15/1936 - Birth-Ashley J Cooper, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
09/15/1937 - Birth-Cynthia Anzolut, Harrisburg PA, LPGA golfer
09/15/1937 - Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
09/15/1937 - WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
09/15/1938 - Birth-Gaylord Perry, baseball player (1972 AL Cy Young winner)
09/15/1938 - Birth-Rafael H Osuna, tennis champ (US Open - 1963)
09/15/1938 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
09/15/1938 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
09/15/1938 - Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
09/15/1938 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 62
09/15/1939 - Birth-Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter
09/15/1940 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
09/15/1940 - Birth-Frank Linzy, baseball player
09/15/1940 - Birth-Merlin Olsen, UT, NFL tackle (Rams)/sportscaster/actor (Father Murphy)
09/15/1940 - Birth-Norman [Richard] Spinrad, US, sci-fi author (Child of Fortune)
09/15/1940 - Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
09/15/1940 - Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
09/15/1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
09/15/1940 - PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
09/15/1940 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
09/15/1941 - Birth-Miroslav Hermazewski, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 30)
09/15/1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
09/15/1942 - Birth-Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, US, sci-fi author (Hotel Transylvania)
09/15/1942 - Birth-Phil Harris, English carpet manufacturer/multi millionaire
09/15/1942 - Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies
09/15/1942 - Joe Travers, cricketer (Australian SLA, in only Test innings), dies
09/15/1942 - US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
09/15/1943 - Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
09/15/1943 - Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
09/15/1943 - Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
09/15/1943 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
09/15/1944 - British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
09/15/1944 - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
09/15/1944 - US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
09/15/1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
09/15/1944 - US troops lands on Palau & Morotai
09/15/1945 - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61
09/15/1945 - Birth-Jessye Norman, US, opera singer (Carmen)
09/15/1946 - Birth-Fighting Mack, [Edwin Alberto], Antillian welterweight boxer
09/15/1946 - Birth-Oliver Stone, NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
09/15/1946 - Birth-Tommy Lee Jones, actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday, Fugitive)
09/15/1946 - Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
09/15/1947 - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
09/15/1947 - Yanks clinch pennant #15
09/15/1948 - "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
09/15/1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
09/15/1948 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM
09/15/1949 - "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV
09/15/1949 - Birth-Joe L Barton, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
09/15/1949 - WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
09/15/1949 - WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
09/15/1950 - During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
09/15/1950 - East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
09/15/1950 - For a record 6th time, NY Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
09/15/1950 - Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
09/15/1950 - UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
09/15/1950 - US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
09/15/1950 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
09/15/1951 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs
09/15/1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
09/15/1951 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56
09/15/1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
09/15/1952 - Birth-Kelly Keagy, rock vocalist (Night Ranger)
09/15/1952 - Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
09/15/1952 - European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
09/15/1952 - UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
09/15/1953 - Birth-Bruce Heuchan, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Alberta-7th)
09/15/1953 - Birth-Jerry Page, golfer (largest PGA victory margin)
09/15/1953 - Birth-Pat Barrett, rocker (Crew Cuts)
09/15/1953 - Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
09/15/1953 - Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies
09/15/1953 - KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
09/15/1953 - WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
09/15/1954 - Birth-7th marquess of Bristol, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
09/15/1955 - Birth-Mac Sweeney, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
09/15/1955 - WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins
09/15/1956 - Birth-Jaki Graham, British personality
09/15/1956 - Birth-Ned Rothenberg, composer
09/15/1956 - Birth-Tawny Elaine Godin Schneider, Maine, Miss Amer (76)/(Eye on Hollywood)
09/15/1956 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82
09/15/1957 - "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
09/15/1957 - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
09/15/1957 - Birth-Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer (1993 SW Bell)
09/15/1957 - SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
09/15/1958 - 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
09/15/1958 - Birth-Lesley Player, Redhill England, Sarah Fergusson's father's lover
09/15/1958 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
09/15/1959 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
09/15/1960 - Birth-Scott Thompson Baker, Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
09/15/1960 - France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
09/15/1961 - 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
09/15/1961 - Birth-Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
09/15/1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
09/15/1962 - "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs
09/15/1962 - Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
09/15/1962 - Birth-Aubrey Matthews, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
09/15/1962 - Birth-Earnest Byner, NFL running back (Cleve Browns)
09/15/1962 - Birth-Patricia "Patty" Shea, Belmont NY, field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
09/15/1962 - Birth-Wendie Jo Sperber, Glendale Calif, actress (Amy Bossom Buddies)
09/15/1962 - KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
09/15/1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
09/15/1962 - WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
09/15/1963 - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
09/15/1963 - Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn
09/15/1963 - Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
09/15/1963 - Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
09/15/1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
09/15/1963 - WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
09/15/1964 - Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
09/15/1964 - Birth-Andrew Landenberger, Australian tornado yachter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
09/15/1964 - Birth-R Kikuchi, Japan cosmonaut
09/15/1964 - Birth-Robert Farley, Ndola Zambia, Australasia golfer
09/15/1964 - Birth-Ryoko Kikuchi, Japan cosmonaut
09/15/1964 - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
09/15/1964 - Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
09/15/1965 - "Lost in Space" premieres
09/15/1965 - Birth-Rob Whitlock, Newcastle NSW, Australasia golfer
09/15/1966 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
09/15/1966 - Birth-Sherman Douglas, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
09/15/1966 - Dutch political party (D'66) forms
09/15/1966 - Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
09/15/1967 - Birth-Dexter Carter, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
09/15/1967 - Birth-Jerry Dixon, heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
09/15/1967 - Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78
09/15/1967 - Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67
09/15/1967 - KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
09/15/1968 - "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
09/15/1968 - Birth-Danny Nucci, actor (Gabriel Ortega-Falcon Crest)
09/15/1968 - Birth-Michael Puschacher, hockey goalie (Team Austria 1998)
09/15/1968 - Birth-Rich Robertson, Nacogdoches TX, pitcher (Minn Twins)
09/15/1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
09/15/1968 - Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
09/15/1968 - NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
09/15/1968 - Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
09/15/1968 - WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
09/15/1968 - WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
09/15/1969 - Birth-KG, rocker (Naughty by Nature)
09/15/1969 - Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game
09/15/1970 - Birth-Danny Ellis, Orlando Fla, golfer (All-American-1990, 92, 93)
09/15/1970 - Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
09/15/1970 - PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
09/15/1970 - Rotterdam harbor strikes end
09/15/1971 - 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV
09/15/1971 - Birth-Chad Bratzke, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
09/15/1971 - Birth-Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina (1997)
09/15/1971 - Birth-Josh Charles, actor (Crossing the Bridge, Cooperstown)
09/15/1971 - Birth-Myron Bell, NFL safety (Pitts Steelers)
09/15/1971 - Birth-Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg S Africa, tennis star (Munich 1995)
09/15/1971 - Birth-Will Shields, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
09/15/1972 - Birth-Amanda Lynn Granrud, Great Falls Montana, Miss America-Montana (1996)
09/15/1972 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
09/15/1972 - WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
09/15/1973 - "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV
09/15/1973 - Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
09/15/1973 - Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
09/15/1973 - Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¬ miles
09/15/1974 - Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
09/15/1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
09/15/1975 - Birth-Tom Dolan, US, 400m freestyle/200m/400m medley swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
09/15/1975 - Birth-Tsutsumi Otomo, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
09/15/1975 - Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
09/15/1976 - Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC
09/15/1976 - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
09/15/1977 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances
09/15/1977 - Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)
09/15/1977 - Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs
09/15/1977 - Rock Music Award
09/15/1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
09/15/1978 - Birth-Amanda Rochelle Penix, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1997)
09/15/1978 - Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
09/15/1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
09/15/1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
09/15/1978 - Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2« games
09/15/1979 - Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
09/15/1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
09/15/1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
09/15/1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
09/15/1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
09/15/1981 - Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism
09/15/1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
09/15/1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
09/15/1982 - 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
09/15/1982 - Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
09/15/1982 - Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
09/15/1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
09/15/1983 - Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway
09/15/1983 - Israel premier Begin resigns
09/15/1983 - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
09/15/1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
09/15/1984 - Birth-Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession
09/15/1984 - Jack Ikin, cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies
09/15/1984 - Morocco Showcase opens
09/15/1984 - Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
09/15/1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
09/15/1985 - 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16«-11« at The Belfry, England
09/15/1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
09/15/1985 - Olof Palme forms Sweden minority govt
09/15/1985 - Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
09/15/1985 - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
09/15/1985 - Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
09/15/1986 - 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
09/15/1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
09/15/1986 - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
09/15/1987 - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
09/15/1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
09/15/1988 - Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
09/15/1988 - Museum of Moving Image in London opens
09/15/1988 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
09/15/1989 - Harry Cave, cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies
09/15/1990 - 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law & Murphy Brown win
09/15/1990 - Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
09/15/1990 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
09/15/1990 - Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
09/15/1990 - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
09/15/1990 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies
09/15/1990 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
09/15/1991 - "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
09/15/1991 - 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
09/15/1991 - Allan Sobek, dancer, dies
09/15/1991 - Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
09/15/1991 - John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87
09/15/1991 - NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
09/15/1991 - SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds
09/15/1991 - US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
09/15/1992 - Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat
09/15/1992 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
09/15/1993 - Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
09/15/1993 - Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
09/15/1993 - Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
09/15/1994 - "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam
09/15/1994 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
09/15/1994 - Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
09/15/1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
09/15/1994 - H’l’na Manson, Venez/French actress (Nude in a White Car), dies at 94
09/15/1994 - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
09/15/1994 - Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
09/15/1995 - Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
09/15/1995 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
09/15/1995 - Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
09/15/1995 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
09/15/1996 - 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 16«-15« at Robert Jones Va
09/15/1996 - Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
09/15/1996 - Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76
09/15/1996 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80
09/15/1996 - Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88
09/15/1996 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
09/15/1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
09/15/1996 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70
09/15/1996 - Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34
09/15/1997 - Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
09/15/1997 - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000