September 15th

The September 15th is the 258e Jour of the Année (259e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 107 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

533: Catch of Carthage by Bélisaire.
1449 : The inhabitants of Saint-Lo open all large the doors of their city to the soldiers liberators of Charles VII, and it is in the shade of its ramparts that the Connétable of Richemont gathers the troops which will ensure the victory of Formigny.
1590 : Election of the Pope Urbain VII. He will die the September 27th according to.
1590 : 8th war of religion: the son of the Elector Palatine signs with the Huguenots French, directed by Henri IV, a treaty envisaging the sending in France of 156.000 German and Swiss mercenaries.
1697 : Victoire of the Austrians on the Turks with Zenta.
1762 : Battle of Signal Hill.
1776 : The English troops occupy New York.
1777 : The Polish count Casimir Poulaski is named American revolutionary general.
1821 : Independence of the Costa Rica, the Guatemala, the El Salvador, the Honduras and the Nicaragua.
1874 : Opening of the Conference international of the post office, which will end to the creation of the General union of the stations.
1882 : The British army occupies Cairo; Arabi Pasha, which goes, is exiled with Ceylon.

XXe century

1916 : The British army uses tanks for the first time on the face of the Sum.
1918 : American offensive with Saint-Mihiel (Meuse) and of the general Louis Franchet d' Espérey in Macedonia.
1935 : The Lois of Nuremberg put the Juifs at the index and make Croix-gammée the official emblem of Germany.
1938 : Interview with Berchtesgaden between Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, and Hitler, which is affirmed determined to annex the Sudètes on the basis of self-determination.
1942 : The German army launches an offensive against Stalingrad.
1946 : A Popular republic is instituted in Bulgaria, after the rejection of monarchy by a referendum.
1949 : In Germany, Konrad Adenauer is the first Chancelier of the FRG.
1963 : Ahmed Ben Bella becomes president of Algérie
1965: Barbara triumph with Bobino.
1967 : Commit suicide of the marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, who ordered the Egyptian forces during the war of the Six-Jours against Israel.
1974 : A plane of Air Vietnam east destroyed by a " pirate of the air" , which wanted to divert it on Hanoï: 71 dead.
1982 : The Pape Jean-Paul II receives the chief of PLO, Yasser Arafat, for 20 minutes a private audience.
1983 : Menahem Begin resigns of the post of head of the Israeli government . To succeed to him, the party of the Likoud chooses Yitzhak Shamir.
1990 : Jacques Doctor, mayor of Nice, flees in Argentine after having been put in examination for Abuse of corporate asset.
1992 : Coming into effect of the news Constitution of Djibouti.
1998 : With Salamanque (Spain), alternate of Domingo López Cháves, Spanish Matador.

XXIe century

2001 : Death of the commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, chief of the forces of opposition in Afghanistan, victim of a attack-suicide which has occurred five days earlier in the north of the country.
2006 : Tarcisio Bertone, created cardinal by the pope Jean-Paul II in 2003, becomes new the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Roman Curie, succeeding Angelo Sodano.

Births

973: Al Biruni, doctor, astronomer, Persan mathematician, close to Khiva (Ouzbékistan) († December 13rd 1048 with Ghazni in Afghanistan)
1613: François of Rochefoucauld, French writer.
1736 : Jean Sylvain Bailly, astronomer, politician and academician French.
1739 : Juan de Villanueva, Spanish architect († August 22nd 1811).
1760 : François Sebastien Christophe Laporte, lawyer and deputy French.
1787 : Guillaume-Henri Dufour, town planner and Swiss general († July 14th 1875)
1808: John Hutton Balfour, British botanist († February 11th 1884)
1830: Porfirio Díaz, president of the Mexico until in 1911.
1857 : William Howard Taft, 27e president of the the United States (1909-1913).
1858 : Father Charles de Foucauld, missionary hermit in the Sahara
1890: Agatha Christie, novelist, the creative one of the characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
1894 : Jean Renoir, director ( the Great Illusion , the Rules of the game ).
1906 : Jacques Becker, director and scenario writer ( Do not touch with the grisbi , Ali Baba ).
1907 : Fay Wray, actress ( the Hunting of the count Zaroff , King Kong ).
1923 : Anton Heiller, musician (organist, harpsichordist, pianist, type-setter).
1926 :

Jean-Pierre Tightens, mathematician French.
Shohei Imamura, Japanese realizer.

1938 : Janusz A. Zajdel, writer Polish of Science fiction († July 19th 1985)
1940: Norman Spinrad, author of Science fiction American
1941

Viktor Zoubkov, born with Arbat (the Ural), is Prime Minister of Russia since the September 14th 2007.
Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Polish spationaut
Youri Norstein, Russian scenario writer of animation

1946

Oliver Stone, scenario writer ( JFK , Platoon , Born one July 4th ).
Tommy Lee Jones, actor and American realizer Love Story , Fugitive the , Three burials …

1984: the Prince Harry, junior by the prince Charles and the princess Diana.

Death

655 : Martin I {{er}}, pope
866:

Robert IV the Fort, marquis of Neustrie, ancestor of the dynasty capétienne, with the Battle of Brissarthe.
Ramnulf I {{er}}, count de Poitiers of 839 with 866, duke of Aquitaine of 856 with 866, the Battle of Brissarthe.

1221 : Juhaël II of Mayenne, Lord de Mayenne.
1386 : Roland de Medici, religious Italy N, hermit in Emilie, holy catholic. (° v. 1330)
1859: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer originator of the Great Eastern (° 1806)
1945: Anton Webern, Austrian type-setter (° December 3rd 1883)
1947: Carnicerito de Méjico (Jose González López), Mexican Matador (° March 19th 1917).
1972 : Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician (° May 13rd 1894)
1973: Gustave VI Adolphe, king of Sweden
1993: Assassination of the priest Gift Pino with Palermo
2004: Johnny Cleans, guitarist of the group The Ramones (° October 8th 1948)
2007: Hake McRae, pilot of rally and champion WRC 1995 (° August 5th 1968)

Celebrations

Japan: Keirô No Hi (day of the elderly)

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

Achart de Jumièges (+ 687).
Èvre de Toul or Aper (+ 5th century).

Catholic saints

Roland de Medici († 1386), hermit in Emilie (Italy).

Orthodoxe saints

Syméon de Thessalonique archbishop (+ 15th century).

Saying of the day

“Of beautiful grape, sometimes poor wine. ”

See too

September 15th in sport
September 15th in the railroads

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