This Day In History

September 15th

1775  After seizing Fort Johnson on James Island, South Carolina from the British, American forces raise an early and unofficial flag designed by Colonel William Moultrie displaying the word Liberty spelled in white letters over a dark blue background, and a small white crescent in the upper left corner.
1776  British forces occupy New York City during the Revolutionary War
1853  The first female minister in the US, Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell, is ordained at the Congressional Church in South Butler, New York
1908  General Motors is incorporated in New Jerse
1917  Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1919  The American Legion incorporated by Act of Congress.
1923  Oklahoma is placed under martial law by Governor John Calloway Walton due to Ku Klux Klan activity.
1928  Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers the antibiotic effects of the penicillin by accident
1935  The Nuremberg Laws make the Swastika the official symbol of the Nazis and revoked the citizenship of the Jewish people living in Germany
1949  The Lone Ranger debuts on television
1963  A church bombing in an affluent African-American neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama kills 4 young African-American girls.

1789  James Fenimore Cooper
1857  US President William Howard Taft born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1890  Mystery WriterAgatha Cristie

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