September 15
Today in America's Present Past
1655 | Indian Wars: “The Peach War” starts.
1683 | Germantown, Pennsylvania, is founded by 13 settler families.
1777 | War of Independence: George Washington appoints Casimir Pulaski as a general in the Continental Army.
1789 | Author James Fenimore Cooper was born.
1789 | Congress: The US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State.
1794 | Founder Abraham Clark died.
1794 | POTUS: President James Madison weds Dolly Payne Todd.
1830 | Civil Rights: The First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1851 | Saint Joseph's University was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1853 | Civil Rights: Antoinette Blackwell became the first American woman to be ordained a minister.
1852 | Civil Rights: The first African-American to earn a Ph.d, Edward Bouchet was born.
1857 | President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft is born.
1874 | SCOTUS: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis died.
1876 | Newspaper publisher Frank Gannett was born.
1911 | Entrepreneur Karsten Solheim was born.
1914 | General Creighton Abrams was born.
1917 | B. C. Forbes and Walter Drey founded Forbes Magazine.
1929 | Physicist Murray Gell-Mann was born.
1930 | Chemist Patsy O. Sherman was born.
1937 | Economist Robert Lucas, Jr. was born.
1938 | Novelist Thomas Wolfe died.
1939 | Entrepreneur Jim Kimsey was born.
1946 | Director Oliver Stone was born.
1946 | Actor Tommy Lee Jones was born.
1949 | TV: “Lone Ranger” debuted.
1959 | Cold War: Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit.
1961 | Football Pro Dan Marino was born.
1963 | Civil Rights: Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing.
1982 | “USA Today” was published for the first time.
1983 | The first Costco store opens.
1989 | Novelist Robert Penn Warren died.
1997 | “Google.com” is registered.
2024 | POTUS: A Man was arrested and charged with an attempted assassination of former President Trump.