September 15 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 15

• 1890Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright
• 1857William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States
• 1977Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author
• 1789James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian
• 1929Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1977Tom Hardy, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1946Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1894Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on September 15

• 1791French playwright Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality.
• 1816HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
• 1820Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1821The Province of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire.
• 1952The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
• 1954The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.
• 1959Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
• 1968The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
• 1975The French department of "Corse" (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
• 1978At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.
• 1981The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 2020The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Also observed on September 15

• Cry of Dolores, celebrated on the eve of Independence Day (Mexico).
• International Day of Democracy
• The beginning of German American Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15
• The beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated until October 15 (United States)
• World Lymphoma Awareness Day (International)