Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 15

This is a list of selected September 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Pope Innocent X
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  Ships unload men and equipment at the Battle of Inchon.
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  Inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
668 – Constans II, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was assassinated in his bath.	refimprove
1440 – French knight Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, was taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.	refimprove section
1644 – Giovanni Battista Pamphili was elected Pope Innocent X.	unreferenced section
1762 – British forces defeated the French at the Battle of Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, the final and decisive battle of the French and Indian War.	short, needs more footnotes
1830 – During the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, British Member of Parliament William Huskisson was struck and killed by the steam locomotive Rocket.	needs more footnotes
1835 – During the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands, where he further developed his theories of evolution.	unreferenced section
2008 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The global financial-services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over US$600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.	lead too short

Eligible

• 1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened as the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.
• 1916 – Tanks, the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of the Somme in Somme, Picardy, France.
• 1950 – Korean and American troops landed at Incheon, in an amphibious assault, starting the Battle of Inchon, a decisive United Nations military forces victory during the Korean War.

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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