WHAT HAPPENED ON 15. SEPTEMBER
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First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang. (15. September 1894)

World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme. (15. September 1916)

India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded. (15. September 1935)

The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. (15. September 1935)

Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika. (15. September 1935)

World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft. (15. September 1940)

World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal. (15. September 1942)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy. (15. September 1944)

Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery. (15. September 1944)

A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond. (15. September 1945)

RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube. (15. September 1947)

Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077. (15. September 1947)

The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h). (15. September 1948)

Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon (15. September 1950)

United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. (15. September 1952)

A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48. (15. September 1958)

Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. (15. September 1959)

Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour. (15. September 1961)

The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis. (15. September 1962)

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States (15. September 1963)