Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 15 throughout history.
The Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement, officially Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, is an agreement to n…
Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel…
On 15 September 2017, at around 08:20 BST, an explosion occurred on a District line train at Parsons Green Underground station, in London, England. Thirty people were treated in h…
The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
The Gleision Colliery mining accident was a mining accident which occurred on 15 September 2011 at the Gleision Colliery, a drift mine at Cilybebyll in Neath Port Talbot, in Wales…
Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank i…
Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams, 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professi…
National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations…
Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) was a sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing that operated from 1979 until dissolving after the 2003 season. CART was founded in…
During a CART race at the Lausitzring in Germany, former Formula One driver Alex Zanardi suffers a heavy accident…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 (MH2133/MAS2133) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau, operated by Malaysia's flag carrier Malaysia Airlines. On 15 …
Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east…
Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 22 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the D…
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the…
John Bull is a historic British-built steam locomotive that operated in the United States. It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and became the oldest operable…
The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it…
Caesars Superdome, commonly known as the Superdome, is an indoor stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. It has served as the home venue of the New Orleans Saints of the National …
At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the…
In the administrative divisions of France, the department is one of the three levels of government under the national level, between the administrative regions and the communes. T…
The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and…
Air Vietnam Flight 706 was a Boeing 727 that crashed on September 15, 1974, after three hijackers detonated hand grenades as it was approaching Phan Rang Air Base in South Vietnam…
Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
The Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), commonly known as Scandinavian Airlines, is the joint flag carrier airline of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It is part of SAS Group and is h…
A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö Bulltofta…
Greenpeace is a global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to n…
The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its disso…
The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's…
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's…
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter…
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by the wh…
Baptist Church bombing: Four children are killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama,…
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its disso…
The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. …
Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.