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Events on September 15

• 1830 With the opening of the Liverpool–Manchester line, the age of the steam railway begins. In the process, the politician William Huskisson is struck by the locomotive The Rocket and fatally injured. He is the first prominent fatality of railway operation.
• 1835 The Beagle, with the naturalist Charles Darwin on board, reaches the Galapagos Islands.
• 1900 The Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg is opened on the initiative of wealthy Hamburg citizens and entrepreneurs.
• 1916 World War I: In the Battle of the Somme on the northern French front, Great Britain deploys forty-nine armored tracked vehicles for the first time.
• 1930 The premiere of the film The Three from the Filling Station starring Heinz Rühmann takes place in Berlin.
• 1949 Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1968 The New National Gallery, Berlin, designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is opened.
• 1973 Following the death of King Gustav VI Adolf, Carl XVI Gustaf becomes the new monarch in Sweden.
• 1997 The search engine Google, developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University, goes online.
• 1998 The ICE line Hanover–Berlin is put into operation.
• 2000 In Sydney, Australia, the XXVII Summer Olympics are opened.
• 2001 At the Lausitzring, former Formula 1 driver Alessandro Zanardi crashes during a CART race. He loses both legs in the accident.

Born on September 15

• 1870 Rahel Hirsch, German physician, first female professor of medicine in the Kingdom of Prussia
• 1873 Otto Wels, German politician, member of the Reichstag
• 1881 Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer and designer
• 1890 Agatha Christie, British writer
• 1940 Klaus Guth, German actor
• 1951 Lisa Fitz, German cabaret artist
• 1951 Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
• 1961 Hendrikje Fitz, German actress
• 1961 Dan Marino, American football player
• 1993 Dennis Schröder, German basketball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „15. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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