09-15-2004, 07:29 AM
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September 15
1789 ~ Birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, Author.
1821 ~ Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador proclaimed independent.
1867 ~ Birthday of Bruno Walter, Conductor
1885 ~ Death of P.T. Barnum's famous Elephant, Jumbo, hit by locomotive while crossing tracks, died instantly. Was later stuffed and put on display with the circus.
1890 ~ Birthday of Agatha Christie, Author.
1916 ~ Tanks were used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1929 ~ Birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist.
1935 ~ Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of citizenship.
1950 ~ United States forces landed at Incheon, Korea.
1959 ~ Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
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