15 Sep 1830     The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opened.
15 Sep 1916     The first use of tanks in warfare were used at the Battle of the Somme.
15 Sep 1928     Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while studying influenza.
15 Sep 1954     Marilyn Monroe’s iconic skirt scene was shot during filming for ‘The Seven Year Itch’.
15 Sep 1962     The Soviet ship Poltava headed towards Cuba, starting what became the Cuban Missile Crisis.
15 Sep 1964     The Sun newspaper was first published replacing the Daily Herald.
15 Sep 1971     The first Greenpeace ship departed Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.
15 Sep 1985     The European team, captained by Tony Jacklin, won the Ryder Cup for the first time in 28 years.
15 Sep 1997     Google.com was registered as a domain name.
15 Sep 2000     The Summer Olympics opened in Sydney, Australia.
15 Sep 2004     Johnny Ramone died.
15 Sep 2023     Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness announced they are separating after 27 years of marriage.
16 Sep 1620     The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew heading for the New World.

16 Sep 1977     T.Rex singer marc Bolan was killed in a car crash.

17 Sep 1914     Andrew Fisher became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
17 Sep 1939     The German submarine U-29 sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
17 Sep 1961     The Civic Arena opened in Pittsburgh, the world’s first stadium with a retractable roof.
17 Sep 1976     NASA publicly unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise, named after Star Trek Enterprise with the cast in attendance.
17 Sep 2013     Grand Theft Auto V was released and took more than half a billion dollars on the first day.

18 Sep 1809     The Royal Opera House opened in London.
18 Sep 1837     Tiffany & Co. opened in New York City.
18 Sep 1879     The Blackpool Illuminations were switched on for the first time.
18 Sep 1970     Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died after collapsing at a party in London.
18 Sep 1977     Voyager I took the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon in the same picture.
18 Sep 2014     Scotland voted against independence from the United Kingdom by 55% to 45%.

19 Sep 1893     New Zealand became the first country to grant all women the right to vote.
19 Sep 1945     Shirley Temple married John Agar.
19 Sep 1970     Michael Eavis hosted the first Glastonbury Festival.
19 Sep 2010     The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was sealed.
19 Sep 2016     Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt.
19 Sep 2022     The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II took place at Westminster Abbey.
20 Sep 1967     The Queen launched the new Cunard cruise liner, the Queen Elizabeth 2 at Clydebank.
20 Sep 1973     Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match.

21 Sep 1915     Cecil Chubb bought the prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600.
21 Sep 1937     JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ was published.
21 Sep 1942     The Boeing B-29 Superfortress made its maiden flight.
21 Sep 2004     Green Day released the album ‘American Idiot’.