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Events

• 1556 (470 years ago) Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain.
• 1873 (153 years ago) Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
• 1952 (74 years ago) The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
• 1968 (58 years ago) The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
• 1983 (43 years ago) Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Malaysia Airlines Flight 2133 crashes at Tawau Airport in Malaysia, killing 34.
• 2017 (9 years ago) The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Births

• 1254 (772 years ago) Marco Polo, Italian merchant and explorer (died 1324)
• 1613 (413 years ago) François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author (died 1680)
• 1789 (237 years ago) James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (died 1851)
• 1857 (169 years ago) William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (died 1930)
• 1890 (136 years ago) Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1976)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)
• 1977 (49 years ago) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author
• 1984 (42 years ago) Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Deaths

• 1859 (167 years ago) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (born 1806)
• 1926 (100 years ago) Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (born 1900)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden,
• 2006 (20 years ago) Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (born 1929)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)

All 420 events, births and deaths of September 15