Important Events From Today in History – 15 September

Today in History

• 2008 Lehman Brothers file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection. This was the largest bankruptcy in US history.

• 1981 John Bull becomes the oldest operable locomotive

  When the Smithsonian operated the steam locomotive built by the British and operated in New Jersey, US, it became the world’s oldest and still operational locomotive. On September 15, 1831, it was first used.

• 1963 A Ku Klux Klan bomb kills 4 young African-American girls

  Four white supremacists detonated a timed bomb at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, a predominantly black congregation. The bombings were a watershed moment in America’s Civil Rights Movement.

• 1935 Nuremberg laws instituted by the Nazi party are put into force

  The laws revoked citizenship for Jews, forbade them from having relationships with people of non-Jewish origin and made the swastika the official symbol of Germany.

• 1894 Battle of Pyongyang ends with decisive Japanese victory

  The battle was a major land battle took place between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China during the First Sino-Japanese War.