How Many Days Until September 15?

This day in history: September 15

1. 1954

   The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.

2. 1963

   The 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people.

3. 1972

   Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt to force the release of those arrested for the assassination of the Yugoslav ambassador the previous year.

4. 2008

   Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over $600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.

5. 2013

   The Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.

6. 2017

   A homemade bomb partially exploded on an eastbound District line train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, injuring 30 passengers.

7. 2020

   The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

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