Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 15

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 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.
 * 1791 – French playwright Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality.
 * 1816 – HMS Whiting (1812) ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of Cornwall, England.
 * 1821 – The Province of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.
 * 1916 – Tanks (example pictured), the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of Flers–Courcelette in France.
 * 1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of their citizenship.
 * 1944 – World War II: The Greek People's Liberation Army won the Battle of Meligalas and began the execution of many prisoners of war and civilians.
 * 1944 – World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai.
 * 1963 – The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people (memorial march pictured).
 * 1972 – Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt to force the release of those arrested for the assassination of the Yugoslav ambassador the previous year.
 * 2008 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over $600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.
 * 2017 – A homemade bomb partially exploded on an eastbound District line train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, injuring 30 passengers.
 * Born/died: | Catherine of Genoa |d|1510| Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland |b|1533| Edmé Boursault |d|1701| Jean Sylvain Bailly |b|1736| Isambard Kingdom Brunel |d|1859| Anna Winlock |b|1857| Charles-Amédée Kohler |d|1874|Phil Lamason |b|1918| Signe Toly Anderson |b|1941

September 15: Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom (1940)


 * 1462 – The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos ended upon the surrender of commander Niccolò Gattilusio; the conquering Mehmed II executed 300 Italian soldiers by chopping them in half, claiming he was fulfilling a promise to "spare their heads".
 * 1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M), the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, opened with the Duke of Wellington in attendance.
 * 1954 – The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate (pictured) was filmed by Billy Wilder.
 * 2013 – The Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.