September 15<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 Supported by naval gunfire, causing New York Militia to retreat from the landing zone and Continental Army troops to withdraw to Harlem Heights, British forces land unopposed at Kip’s Bay on Manhattan island.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 Confederate forces under General Lee, capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1916 \u2013 Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme in World War I<\/p>\n
1935 \u2013 The Nazi regime passes the Nuremberg Laws depriving German Jews of citizenship.<\/p>\n
1940 \u2013 The Battle of Britain reaches its climax when the Luftwaffe launches its largest attack of the entire campaign.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 The carrier USS Wasp<\/em> is sunk by a Japanese submarine off Guadalcanal.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army troops invade the island of Peleliu in the Palau archipelago to secure the right flank for the Philippine invasion.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Flying a F-86 Sabre,<\/em> from Muroc Dry Lake, USAF Major Richard L. Johnson sets the world aircraft speed record at the time of 671 miles per hour.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon during the Korean War.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Democrat 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.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Lehman Brothers, the 4th largest investment bank in the United States files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to its involvement in the economic collapse of mortgage backed securities (MBS), the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The Bahrain\u2013Israel normalization agreement is signed in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and 2 Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 15 1776 \u2013 Supported by naval gunfire, causing New York Militia to retreat from the landing zone and Continental Army troops to withdraw to Harlem Heights, British forces land unopposed at Kip’s Bay on Manhattan island. 1789 \u2013 The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State. 1862 \u2013 Confederate forces … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71964,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582\/revisions\/71964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}