Today is Thursday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2016. There are 107 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1857, William Howard Taft – who served as president of the United States and as U.S. chief justice – was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1890, English mystery writer Agatha Christie was born in Torquay.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
In 1940, during the World War II Battle of Britain, the tide turned as the Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.
In 1972, a federal grand jury in Washington indicted seven men in connection with the Watergate break-in.
In 1994, a tape recording of John Lennon singing with his teenage band, The Quarrymen, in a Liverpool club on July 6, 1957, was sold at Sotheby’s for $122,500 (it was at this gig that Lennon first met Paul McCartney).
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