September 15

September 15 is the 258th (two hundred and fifty-eighth) day of the year ―the 259th (two hundred and fifty-ninth) in leap years― in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days left to end the year.

Events

• 800: first mention of the term "Castilla" in an apocryphal document of the now missing monastery of St.Emeterio de Taranco de Mena.
• 994: Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Orontes.
• 1440: Gilles de Rais, one of the first known serial killers, is arrested after an accusation filed against him by Jean de Malestroit, bishop of Nantes.
• 1530: In Soriano Cálabro (Region of Calabria), a chaplain states that the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine gave him a portrait of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (creator of the Dominican order).
• 1556: Starting from Flesinga, the former emperor of the Holy Roman German Empire Carlos V returns to Spain.
• 1714: The Ciento Council of Barcelona, the municipal self-government institution, is abolished after the entrance of the Duke of Berwick in the city.
• 1762: Battle of Signal Hill, in the framework of the seven-year war, with which the British got France to give them the region of San Juan de Newfoundland.
• 1808: In New Spain (now Mexico) a coup was carried out against the viceroy José de Iturrigaray, who supported the Board of Mexico, of a liberal tendency.
• 1817: in Venezuela, General Simón Bolívar orders, by decree, the incorporation of the province of Guayana to the cause of independence.

Signature of the Central American Independence Act.

• 1821: In Guatemala, the Act of Independence of the Office of the Attorney General of Guatemala was signed, an occasion which was celebrated by the States of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as the Independence of Central America.
• 1822: in Chile, Ramón Freire (Chile's Supreme Director) signed in the same decree that slavery be abolished the definitive prohibition of bullfighting and cockfighting in Chile for being practices that infringed the Enlightenment, Culture and being improper of civilization.^{[chuckles]required]}
• 1829: In Mexico, President Vicente Guerrero issued a decree abolishing any form of slavery in Mexican territory.
• 1849 (approximate date): in Holchén (Yucatan Peninsula)—in the framework of the Castas War (of the Mayas against the Whites)—Mayan indigenous leader Jacinto Pat is killed by his companions.
• 1854: At the Teatro Santa Anna, later called Teatro de la República (in Mexico City), the first time is the National Mexican Anthem. It's sung by Enriqueta Sotang. The lyrics are by Francisco González Bocanegra and the music by Jaime Nunó.
• 1876: Argentina begins its publication The Buenos Aires Herald.
• 1879: in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, the present National Anthem of El Salvador is first sung at an official ceremony.
• 1897: the revolutionary forces proclaim their victory over the military forces and the Uzbek authorities do not know the government of President José María Reina Barrios. Later the revolutionaries took Ocós, Colomba Costa Cuca and Coatepeque, and thus declared the State of Los Altos Libre Sovereign and Independiente.
• 1898: in the municipality of Tecalitlán (Mexico), the young Gaspar Vargas López (1880-1969) founded the Mariachi Vargas.
• 1903: in Porto Alegre (Brazil) the Grêmio de Football Portoalegrense is founded.
• 1910: In Pachuca de Soto the centenary tower known as the Monumental Clock is inaugurated to commemorate the centenary of the Independence of Mexico
• 1933: 400 km northwest of Asunción (Paraguay)—in the framework of the Chaco War—a Paraguayan division manages to fence and surrender to two Bolivian regiments. This is the end of the Battle of Campo Grande, which had begun on August 30.
• 1935: In Germany, the laws of Nuremberg deprive the Jews of German citizenship.
• 1936: In Medellin (Colombia), the Bolivarian Catholic University was founded, which in 1945 took the name of the Bolivarian Pontifical University.
• 1943: In Italy, Benito Mussolini announced the creation of the Republican Fascist Party.
• 1946: Bulgaria becomes the People's Republic.
• 1950: In Colombia, the HJCK cultural station is aired.
• 1953: for the first time a woman presided over the United Nations General Assembly, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India.
• 1960: In the Cuban village of Palma de La Cruz (Eastern Province), a group of Cubans—in the framework of the attacks organized by the U.S. CIA—kill Ricardo González Miranda, a volunteer teacher of the National Literacy Campaign.
• 1961: In the USA. U.S., Senate and House of Representatives resolve that Congress recognizes Uncle Sam Wilson Troy, New York, as the father of the national symbol of the United States, Uncle Sam.
• 1961: in an artificial well, 402 meters underground, on the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:00 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb, Antler, of 2.6 kiloton. It is the 197 of the 1132 bomb that detonated the United States between 1945 and 1992.
• 1967: in an artificial well, 241 m underground, in the area of atomic testing in Nevada, at 9:30 (local time), the United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 520, Gilroy, of 19 kilotons.
• 1975: In Santiago de Chile, the first section of Line 1 of the Santiago Metro is inaugurated.
• 1976: the Soviet Union launches the spacecraft Soyuz 22.
• 1977: The book Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien, is published.
• 1981: Vanuatu joins the UN.
• 1983: in the United States the fight between the Peruvian boxer Orlando Romero (sponsored by Guillermo Ganoza Vargas) and the American Ray Mancini is being waged.
• 1986: The British Queen musical band launches its song "Who Wants to Live Forever".
• 1986: in Chile the album is released Kicking stonesThe Prisoners.
• 1995: UN resolution adopted: Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
• 2005: at the San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium, the singer Avril Lavigne presents for the first time in Chile The Bonez Tour.
• 2006: For the second time, Fidel Castro is elected president of the NOAL (Movement of Non-Aligned Countries).
• 2008: In Morelia, Mexico, two hand grenades explode at the ceremony of the beginning of the independence movement, causing 8 deaths and more than 130 wounded. See terrorist attack in Morelia in 2008.
• 2008: The Lehman Brothers investment bank is declared bankrupt in the United States, leading to one of the largest global economic crisis in history.
• 2017: the Cassini spacecraft ends its mission to Saturn by entering the atmosphere of this planet, after 13 years orbiting it.
• 2017: the American band Foo Fighters launches its new album: Concrete and Gold.
• 2017: the attack of the London Parsons Green station took place.

Births

• 973: Al-Biruni, writer, historian and Uzbek explorer (f. 1048).
• 1254: Marco Polo, Venetian traveler (f. 1324).
• 1613: François de La Rochefoucauld, a French writer (f. 1680).
• 1666: Sofia Dorotea of Brunswick-Lunebourg, German aristocrat (f. 1726).
• 1739: Juan de Villanueva, Spanish architect (f. 1811).
• 1759: Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine military, first president (f. 1829).
• 1789: James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (f. 1851).
• 1810: Jerome Usera, a Spanish religious, founder of the Sisters of Love of God (f. 1891).
• 1811: Nicomedes Pastor Díaz, a Spanish writer (f. 1863).
• 1828: Aleksandr Bútlerov, Russian chemist (f. 1886).
• 1830: Porfirio Díaz, Mexican military, president of Mexico between 1876, 1877-1880 and 1884-1911 (f. 1915).
• 1851: Manuel Curros Enríquez, a Spanish writer (f. 1908).
• 1857: William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th president between 1909 and 1913 (f. 1930).
• 1858: Charles de Foucauld, a French missionary and hermit in the Sahara (f. 1916).
• 1875: Alfredo Placencia, Mexican poet and priest (f. 1930).
• 1876: Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist in the Bengali language (f. 1938).
• 1876: Bruno Walter, director of German orchestra and musician (f. 1962).
• 1879: Joseph Lyons, Australian politician (f. 1939).
• 1880: Chūjirō Hayashi, Japanese master of reiki (f. 1940).
• 1881: Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Italian car builder (f. 1947).
• 1883: Esteban Terradas, Spanish mathematician (f. 1950).
• 1887: Carlos Dávila Espinoza, Chilean politician, provisional president in 1932 (f. 1955).
• 1888: Marcelino García Flamenco, Salvadoran teacher burned alive in Costa Rica (f. 1919).
• 1888: Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (f. 1926).
• 1890: Agatha Christie, British writer of mystery novels (f. 1976).
• 1890: Frank Martin, Swiss composer (f. 1974).
• 1894: Jean Renoir, French filmmaker (f. 1979).
• 1896: Eduardo Lonardi, Argentine military (f. 1956).
• 1897: Mario Briceño Iragorry, Venezuelan lawyer and politician (f. 1958).
• 1903: Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentennial (f. 2017).
• 1904: Humberto II, last king of Italy (f. 1983).
• 1904: Ramón Areces, Spanish entrepreneur (f. 1989).
• 1906: Jacques Becker, French filmmaker (f. 1960).
• 1907: Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (f. 2004).
• 1909: Roberto Parada, Chilean actor (f. 1986).
• 1911: José Muguerza Anitúa, Spanish footballer (f. 1984).
• 1914: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer, Cervantes Award in 1990 (f. 1999).
• 1915: Dolores Marimón Navarro, Spanish anarchist policy (f. 2003).
• 1918: Ernesto Pinto Lagarrigue, Chilean engineer and politician (f. 1977).
• 1918: Margot Loyola, folklorist, composer, guitarist, pianist, collector and researcher of the Chilean folklore (f. 2015).
• 1919: Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (f. 1960).
• 1922: Bob Anderson, British farmer (f. 2012).
• 1922: Sergio de Castro, plastic artist and Francoargentine musician (f. 2012).
• 1922: Vera Kashcheyeva, a Soviet military physician (f. 1975).
• 1924: Lucebert, Dutch painter and poet (f. 1994).
• 1926: Antonio Carrizo, locutor and presenter of radio and Argentine television (f. 2016).
• 1926: Shohei Imamura, Japanese filmmaker (f. 2006).
• 1926: Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician.
• 1927: Norm Crosby, American comedian (f. 2020).
• 1927: Ricardo Miledi, Mexican neuroscientist (f. 2017).
• 1928: Cannonball Adderley, American saxophoneist (f. 1975).
• 1929: Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, nobel physics award in 1969 (f. 2019).
• 1929: Nena Jiménez, a Colombian humorist (f. 2011).
• 1933: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, director of orchestra and Spanish musician (f. 2014).
• 1933: Henry Darrow, an American actor (f. 2021).
• 1935: Salvador Breglia, footballer and Paraguayan coach (f. 2014).
• 1937: Fernando de la Rúa, politician and Argentine lawyer, president of Argentina between 1999 and 2001 (f. 2019).
• 1937: Robert Lucas, an American economist.
• 1938: Rafael Osuna, Mexican tennis player (f. 1969).
• 1940: Imelda Miller, Mexican singer.
• 1941:
  • Felix Albert, Hungarian footballer (f. 2011).
  • Mirosław Hermaszewski, a Polish military and cosmonaut (f. 2022).
• 1943: Juan José Camero, Argentine actor.
• 1945: Narcís Martí Filosia, Spanish footballer.
• 1945: Ron Shelton, American filmmaker
• 1945: Carmen Maura, Spanish actress.
• 1945: Jessye Norman, American soprano.

Tommy Lee Jones

• 1946: Tommy Lee Jones, American actor.
• 1946: Karmele Marchante, Spanish journalist.
• 1946: Oliver Stone, American filmmaker.
• 1947: Theodore Long, American free fighting arbitrator.
• 1947: Eusebio Poncela, Spanish actor.
• 1947: Meche Carreño, Mexican actress (f. 2022).
• 1949: Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear physicist (f. 2018).
• 1949: Pablo Rieznik, politician, university professor and Argentine researcher (f. 2015).
• 1951: Federico Jiménez Losantos, Spanish journalist.
• 1951: Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer.

Gustavo Cordera

• 1953: Joaquín Oristrell, Spanish film writer and filmmaker.
• 1954: Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist.
• 1954: Paweł Pawlikowski, Polish filmmaker.
• 1958: Dr. Know, American guitarist, Bad Brains band.
• 1959: Solomon Jara Cruz, Mexican politician.
• 1960: Carlos Ramos Núñez, jurist, writer and historian of Peruvian law (f. 2021).
• 1961: Gustavo Cordera, Argentine singer, former leader of Bersuit Vergarabat.
• 1961: Dan Marino, American football player.
• 1964: Robert Fico, Slovak prime minister.
• 1964: Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American guitarist, punk band The Misfits.
• 1967: Jacky Detaille, Belgian karateca.
• 1968: Danny Nucci, Austrian actor.
• 1969: Roberto Solozábal, Spanish footballer.
• 1971: Josh Charles, American actor.
• 1971: Eduardo España, actor and Mexican comedian.
• 1972: Jimmy Carr, British antitheist humorist.
• 1972: Letizia Ortiz, queen consorte de España.
• 1973: Julie Cox, British actress.
• 1973: Daniel Westling, Swedish aristocrat.
• 1974: Marta Botía, Spanish singer, from the band Ella Baila Sola.
• 1975: Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese footballer.

Tom Hardy.

• 1976: Paul Thomson, British drummer, Franz Ferdinand.
• 1976: Tiko, Spanish football player.
• 1976: Martijn Meerdink, Dutch footballer.
• 1977: Tom Hardy, British actor.
• 1977: Mark Tacher, Mexican actor.
• 1977: Jason Terry, American basketball player.
• 1978: Eidur Gudjohnsen, Icelandic footballer.
• 1979: Dave Annable, American actor.
• 1979: Amy Davidson, American actress.
• 1979: Carlos Ruiz, a Guatemalan footballer.
• 1980: Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player.
• 1980: Domenico Spada, Italian boxer.
• 1980: Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer and businessman.
• 1981: Ben Schwartz, actor, comedian and American screenwriter.
• 1983: Tomáš Sivok, Czech footballer.
• 1984: Maximiliano Biancucchi, Argentine footballer.
• 1984: Enrique de Sussex, British aristocrat.
• 1985: Johanna Fadul, Colombian actress.
• 1986: Heidi Montag, American actress and singer.
• 1986: Jenna Marbles, American youtuber.
• 1987: Christian Cooke, British actor.
• 1987: Aly Cissokho, French footballer.
• 1987: Omid Ebrahimi, Iranian footballer.
• 1988: Daniel Clark, British basketball player.
• 1988: Chelsea Staub, American actress and singer.
• 1988: Blanche Bradburry, pornographic actress and Czech erotic model.
• 1994: Björn Engels, Belgian footballer.
• 1995: Rafael Santos Borré, Colombian footballer.
• 1997: Leonardo Candellone, Italian footballer.
• 1998: Jon Morcillo, Spanish footballer.
• 1999: Nana ⋅wada, Japanese singer.
• 1999: Jaren Jackson Jr., American basketball player.
• 1999: Davide Marfella, Italian footballer.
• 2000: Lee Felix, Australian singer, member of the Stray Kids group.
• 2008: Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean child actress.

Deaths

• 668: Constant II, Byzantine emperor (n. 630).
• 1231: Louis I, Bavarian aristocrat (n. 1173).
• 1748: Dorotea Sofia of Neoburg, German aristocrat (n. 1670).
• 1832: Domingo de Monteverde, militar, politician and Spanish colonial administrator (n. 1773).
• 1842: Francisco Morazán, Central American politician and military, national hero of Honduras (n. 1792).
• 1842: Pierre Baillot, violinist and French composer (n. 1771).
• 1859: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (n. 1806).
• 1864: John Hanning Speke, British explorer (n. 1827).
• 1877: Ponciano Ponzano, Spanish sculptor (n. 1813).
• 1885: Juliusz Zarębski, pianist and Polish composer (n. 1854).
• 1926: Rudolf Eucken, German philosopher, Nobel Prize of Literature in 1908 (n. 1846).
• 1942: Gabriel Terra, Uruguayan lawyer and politician (n. 1873).
• 1945: Anton Webern, Austrian composer (n. 1883).
• 1945: Harry Daghlian, an American physicist, who died in a nuclear accident (n. 1921).
• 1947: Frederick Russell Burnham, American military explorer (n. 1861).
• 1949: Emiliano R. Fernández, poet and Paraguayan musician (n. 1894).
• 1951: Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish zarzuela composer (n. 1895).
• 1953: Erich Mendelsohn, American architect (n. 1887).
• 1959: Primitivo Hernández Sampelayo, Spanish engineer (n. 1880).
• 1968: José Kentenich, founder of Schönstatt (n. 1885).
• 1972: Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, second president of the country (n. 1894).
• 1973: Ramón de la Fuente Leal, Spanish footballer (n. 1907).
• 1974: Luis Alberto del Paraná, a Paraguayan musician and composer (n. 1926).
• 1975: Carlos Conti, Spanish artist (n. 1916).
• 1977: Roberto Kinsky, director of Hungarian-Argentine orchestra and pianist (n. 1910).
• 1980: Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (n. 1929).
• 1987: Pablo Quiroga Treviño, Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1903).
• 1994: Emilio Vidal, Uruguayan actor and humorist (n. 1918).
• 1995: Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (n. 1921).
• 1999: Jesús Antonio Bejarano Ávila, Colombian economist (n. 1946).

Johnny Ramone

• 1999: Juan Carlos Colman, Argentine footballer (n. 1922).
• 1999: Mario Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (n. 1950).
• 2004: Johnny Ramone, American guitarist, of the band Ramones (n. 1948).
• 2005: Guy Green, American filmmaker (n. 1913).
• 2006: Oriana Fallaci, Italian writer and journalist (n. 1929).
• 2006: Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (n. 1987).
• 2007: Aldemaro Romero, director of orchestra, composer and Venezuelan musician (n. 1928).
• 2007: Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver (n. 1968).
• 2007: Generoso Jiménez, Cuban trombonist (n. 1917).
• 2008: Richard Wright, British key player, of the Pink Floyd band (n. 1943).
• 2012: Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer (n. 1928).
• 2013: Lily Sullos (Lenke Süllős), an Argentinian astrologer of Hungarian origin (n. 1928).
• 2014: Francisco Dotras Lamberti, diplomat, businessman, painter, writer and Spanish announcer (n. 1921).
• 2017: Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (n. 1926).
• 2017: María Cristina Arango de Pastrana, first lady of Colombia 1970-1974 (n. 1928).
• 2017: Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenary (n. 1900).
• 2018: José Manuel de la Sota, Argentine politician (n. 1949).
• 2019:
  • Andrés Sardá Sacristán, Spanish fashion designer and textile engineer, creator of Andrés Sardá (n. 1929).
  • Ric Ocasek, American singer and composer (n. 1944).
• 2021:
  • Fernando Mario Chávez Ruvalcaba, Mexican priest and bishop (n. 1932).
  • Žana Lelas, Yugoslav basketball player (n. 1970).

Celebrations

• International Day of Democracy
• World Lymphoma Awareness Day
• European Day of Prostatic Health
• Independence Day (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica)
• AzerbaijanAzerbaijan:
  • Day of Knowledge
• ChileChile:
  • National Folk Culture Day
• India:
  • Engineer Day
• Mexico Mexico:
  • Anniversary of the Dolores Grite is with what gave the Home of the Mexican War of Independence
• United KingdomUnited Kingdom:
  • Day of the Battle of England
• Thailand:
  • Silpa Bhirasri Day

Catholic saints list

• Our Lady of the Dolores
• St. Nicomedes of Romemartyr
• San Valeriano de Tournusmartyr
• Santos Estratón, Valerio, Macrobio and Gordiano de Tomimartyrs (s. IV)
• San Nicetas Godomartyr (370)
• San Alpino de Lyon, bishop (s. IV)
• San Apro de Toul, bishop (s. VI)
• San Aicadro de Jumiegesabad (s. VII)
• Santos Emilas and Jeremiah de Córdobamartyrs (852)
• Beato Rolando de Médicisanacoreta (1386)
• Saint Catherine Fieschiwidow (1510)
• Beato Camilo Costanzo, priest and martyr (1622)
• Blessed John the Baptist and Jacinto of the Angelsmartyrs (1700)
• Blessed Antonio María Schwartz, priest (1929)
• Beato Pascual Penadés Jornet, priest and martyr (1936)
• Blessed Ladislao Miegon, priest and martyr (1942)
• Blessed Paul Manna, priest (1952)