September 15 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for September 15
In the headlines today:

2008	Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.
2004	The Ramones guitarist and co-founder, Johnny Ramone (John Cummings), dies of prostate cancer in Los Angeles at age 55.
1999	Shortly after US charges of money laundering, former Mexican prosecuting attorney, Mario Ruiz Massieu, is found dead in New Jersey of an apparent suicide.
1989	Author Robert Penn Warren dies in Vermont, at age 84.
1983	Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns from office.
1982	The USA Today newspaper is published for the first time.
1981	Vanuatu is admitted to the United Nations.
1979	Boston Red Sox slugger Bob Watson becomes the first major league baseball player to hit for the cycle in both leagues.
1972	Capitol Records releases Grand Funk Railroad's Phoenix album. (The album would later peak at #7 on the US album sales chart.)
1950	US Marines land at Inchon, Korea.
1935	The Nazis adopt the swastika as the official symbol of the Third Reich.
1821	Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all gain their independence.
1864	John Speke, discoverer of the headwaters of the Nile, dies in a hunting accident.
1807	Aaron Burr, US politician and adventurer, is acquitted of charges of treason.
1789	The US Department of Foreign Affairs gets a new name: the Department of State.
1159	Alexander III is crowned Pope.