📜 This Day in History
September 15
1462The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos ended upon the surrender of commander Niccolò Gattilusio; the conquering Mehmed II executed 300 Italian soldiers by chopping them in half, claiming he was fulfilling a promise to "spare their heads".- 1795French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
- 1862American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.
- 1954The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.
- 2008Financial 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.
- 2020The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
