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. 1890 Born: Agatha Christie Best-selling crime novelist of all time.
6. 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
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. 1949 Adenauer's chancellorship Konrad Adenauer leads West Germany from founding through integration into NATO and the European Community.
11. 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
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. 1835 Darwin reaches the Galápagos The Beagle spends five weeks among the Galápagos islands; the finches, mockingbirds and tortoises that differ island by island later become key evidence for evolution.
15. 1971 Greenpeace founded Vancouver activists found the environmental campaigning group Greenpeace.
16. 1977 The Silmarillion Edited by his son Christopher four years after his death, Tolkien's mythology of the First Age — the creation of Arda to the fall of Morgoth — is finally published.