September 15: International Day of Democracy; Independence Day in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (1821); Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom
John Bull
- 1816 – HMS Whiting became wrecked on the Doom Bar, a treacherous shoal off the coast of Cornwall, England, that has caused over 600 known shipwrecks.
- 1831 – The John Bull (pictured), the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a swastika.
- 1944 – World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai, while the US Marines began their attempt to capture Peleliu.
- 1963 – A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, US, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.
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