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Pope Innocent X
Ships unload men and equipment at the Battle of Inchon.
Inaugural journey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
title=John Bull locomotive
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| , El Salvador | unreferenced section |
| 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. | lead too short, 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 US history. | lead too short |
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- 1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened as the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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; Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese calendar, 2016); Independence Day in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (1821); Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom; Free Money Day
- 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.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.
- 1916 – Tanks (pictured), 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.
- 1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a swastika.
- 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, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.