Daily Almanac: September 15, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:27 a.m.
SET: 7:58 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 78 °F
LOW: 50 °F

Today is…

• Greenpeace Day
• International Grenache Day
• National Caregivers Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1981 John Bull becomes the oldest operable locomotive. The steam locomotive manufactured by the British and operated in New Jersey, US became the world’s oldest and still operable locomotive when the Smithsonian operated it on this day. It was first put to use on September 15, 1831.
• 1963 A Ku Klux Klan bomb kills 4 young African-American girls. 4 members of the white supremacy group, set off a timed bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church, a predominantly black church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombings marked a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement in America.
• 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.

Births On This Day:

• 1946 Oliver Stone

American director, screenwriter, producer
• 1890 Agatha Christie

English author

Deaths On This Day:

• 2007 Colin McRae

Scottish race car driver
• 1938 Thomas Wolfe

American author