What happened on 15 September?

16 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway First inter-city steam railway; opening day marred by death of William Huskisson; railway mania follows across Britain.
2. 1935 Nuremberg Laws Racial laws stripping Jews of German citizenship; legal foundation of Nazi persecution.
3. 1950 Battle of Inchon MacArthur's amphibious landing in the rear of North Korean forces; collapses the invasion of the south.
4. 1916 First use of tanks in combat British tanks debut at Flers-Courcelette during the Somme.
5. 1940 Battle of Britain Day breaks the daylight assault The Luftwaffe's biggest daylight attack on London meets every squadron Fighter Command can fly — Churchill, watching at Uxbridge, asks what reserves remain and is told 'there are n
6. 1890 Born: Agatha Christie Best-selling crime novelist of all time.
7. 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse 150-year-old investment bank files for bankruptcy; cascading global financial panic; triggers massive central bank interventions.
8. 2020 Abraham Accords Israel normalises relations with the UAE and Bahrain; later Morocco and Sudan follow.
9. 1894 Born: Jean Renoir Director of La Grande Illusion and Rules of the Game.
10. 1963 The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Eighteen days after the March on Washington, Klansmen dynamite Birmingham's most prominent Black church on a Sunday morning, killing four girls aged 11 to 14 in the basement dressi
11. 1949 Adenauer's chancellorship Konrad Adenauer leads West Germany from founding through integration into NATO and the European Community.
12. 1955 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel of an obsession with a young girl.
13. 1984 Born: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Second son of King Charles III and Princess Diana.
14. 1971 Greenpeace founded Vancouver activists found the modern environmental movement.
15. 2007 Burmese Saffron Revolution Buddhist monk-led protests in Myanmar against the military junta.
16. 1968 Zond 5 circles the Moon first A Soviet probe loops around the Moon and returns to Earth carrying tortoises, the first living creatures to travel to the Moon and back — and a warning shot that Moscow may still s