What are the important events that happened on September 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 15 is the 258^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 2, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,298,240 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontaoctagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 155 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,651 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 15 Historical Events

• 1835 –
  HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.
• 1940 –
  World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.
• 1950 –
  Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
• 1959 –
  Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
• 1961 –
  Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
• 1966 –
  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
• 1968 –
  The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
• 1975 –
  The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
• 1981 –
  The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 2008 –
  Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Who were born on September 15?

• 1828 –
  Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
• 1879 –
  Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
• 1889 –
  Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
• 1922 –
  Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master
• 1938 –
  Gaylord Perry, baseball player
• 1946 –
  Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
• 1951 –
  Pete Carroll, American football coach
• 1961 –
  Dan Marino, American football player
• 1966 –
  Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
• 1987 –
  Aly Cissokho, French footballer

Who died on September 15?

• 668 –
  Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
• 1613 –
  Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
• 1701 –
  Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
• 1835 –
  Sarah Knox Taylor, American wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
• 1859 –
  Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
• 1972 –
  Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
• 1985 –
  Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1910)
• 1998 –
  Louis Rasminsky, Canadian economist, governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1908)
• 2003 –
  Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist (b. 1920)
• 2008 –
  Richard Wright, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (b. 1943)