15 September 1590: Giambattista Castagna was elected pope as Urban VII; he died of malaria 12 days later.
15 September 1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to the Department of State.
15 September 1812: Napoleon’s forces invaded Moscow and found the city abandoned, two-thirds of it destroyed by fire.
15 September 1821: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador gained independence.
15 September 1862: During the American Civil War, Confederates under General Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) Jackson captured Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), and took more than 12,500 prisoners, the largest Union surrender in the war.
15 September 1890: Agatha Christie was born.
15 September 1916: The tank was used for the first time in combat, by the British during World War I.
15 September 1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the Swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany.
15 September 1950: United Nations troops landed at Inch’on, South Korea, crippling a North Korean invasion during the Korean War.
15 September 1978: Muhammad Ali won the world heavyweight boxing championship for the third time.
15 September 1982: USA Today Founded.
Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
- Agatha Christie
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning bad hunter.
- Anonymous
He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw
14 September 2009: Patrick Swayze dies at 57
