15 September

The **15t o September** is the 258t day o the year (259t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 107 days bidin.

## Events

* 1795 - Great Breetain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in Soothren Africae.
* 1820 - Constitutional Revolution in Lisbon.
* 1821 - In Central Americae, the kintras o Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua an Costa Rica declare unthirldom frae Spain.
* 1830 - The Liverpuil tae Manchester Railwey opens.
* 1835 - The HMS Beagle, wi Charles Darwin on baird, reaches the Galapagos Islands.
* 1873 - Franco-Proushie War: The last German troops leave Fraunce.
* 1875 - A hurricane hits Indianola, Texas, killin atween 150 an 300 fowk.
* 1935 - The Nuremberg Laws deprive Jews in Germany o their ceetizenship.
* 1940 - Warld War II: Hicht o the Battle o Breetain.
* 1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hits Japan, killin 1,077 fowk.
* 1949 - Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Chancellor o the Federal Republic o Germany.
* 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev veesits the Unitit States.
* 1973 - Carl XVI Gustaf o Swaden becomes Keeng.
* 1981 - Vanuatu joins the Unitit Naitions.
* 1991 - Bangladesh completes its transeetion tae democracy.
* 2000 - The 2000 Simmer Olympics in Sydney, Australie, begin.
* 2007 - Warld rally champion Colin McRae dees in a helicopter crash in Lanrikshire, alang wi his son an three faimily friends.
* 2008 - Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy durin the 2008 Feenancial Creesis.
* 2015 - Malcolm Turnbull becomes Prime Meenister o Australie, replacin Tony Abbott.
* 2017 - A bomb attack on Parsons Green tube staition in Lunnon injures 30 fowk.
* 2017 - The Cassini probe's mission tae Saturn is endit, bi plungin it intae the planet's atmosphere.
* 2018 - The V&A Museum at Dundee's watterfront is opened; it wis designed bi Japanese airchitect Kengo Kuma.

## Births

* 1254 - Marco Polo, Venetian splorer (d. 1324)
* 1736 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathemateecian an politeecian (d. 1793)
* 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American writer (d. 1851)
* 1808 - John Hutton Balfour, Scots botanist (d. 1884)
* 1830 - Porfirio Díaz, Preses o Mexico (d. 1915)
* 1857 - William Howard Taft, 27t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1930)
* 1875 - Jimmy Jackson, Scots fitbawer (d. efter 1914)
* 1890 - Agatha Christie, Inglis writer (d. 1976)
* 1904 - Umberto II o Italy (d. 1983)
* 1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (d. 1960)
* 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American pheesicist (d. 2019)
* 1929 - Archie Robertson, Scots fitbawer (d. 1978)
* 1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian fitbawer (d. 2011)
* 1942 - Wen Jiabao, umwhile Premier o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
* 1942 - Emmerson Mnangagwa, 3rd Preses o Zimbabwe
* 1946 - Oliver Stone, American filmmaker
* 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor an film director
* 1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch fitbawer
* 1955 - Brendan O'Carroll, Erse actor, comedian an writer (Mrs. Brown's Boys)
* 1959 - Mark Kirk, American politeecian
* 1964 - Robert Fico, umwhile Prime meenister o Slovakie
* 1972 - Queen Letizia o Spain
* 1973 - Alyn Smith, Scots politeecian
* 1977 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerie writer
* 1977 - Tom Hardy, Inglis actor, screenwriter an producer
* 1978 - Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic fitbawer
* 1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese sangster
* 1984 - Prince Harry, Yerl o Dumbairton

## Daiths
* 668 - Constans II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 630)
* 1512 - John Stewart, 1st Yerl o Atholl (b. 1440)
* 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Inglis ingineer (b. 1806)
* 1864 - John Hanning Speke, Inglis splorer (b. 1827)
* 1891 - John Steell, Scots sculptor (b. 1804)
* 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
* 1972 - Asgeir Asgeirsson, 2nt Preses o Iceland (b. 1894)
* 1973 - Gustaf VI Adolf o Swaden (b. 1882)
* 2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian jurnalist (b. 1929)
* 2007 - Colin McRae, Scots rally driver (b. 1968)
* 2008 - Richard Wright, Inglis muisicker (b. 1943)
* 2017 - Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian (b. 1900)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua an Costa Rica)
* Grito de Dolores (Mexico)
* Ingineer's Day (Indie)
* Battle o Breetain Day