Today in History - History - September 15th

1707Rákóczi II & Tsar Peter the Great sign social security agreement

1926Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini

1985Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert

1981Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism

1835HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands

1970Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million

1982Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat

1904Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight

1812French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow

1943Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy

1936ashley j cooper, Melbourne Victoria, Australian tennis champ (US Open-1957)

1857William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice

1789James Fenimore Cooper, Burlington New Jersey, 1st major American novelist (Last of Mohicans)

1890Agatha Christie, Torquay Devon, British crime writer (Murder on Orient Express), (d. 1976)

1254Marco Polo, Venice, Italian explorer (Il Milione), (d. 1324)

1961Dan Marino, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)

1962Actress Janet Leigh (35) weds stockbroker Robert Brandt

1991NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly

1981Professional boxer George Foreman (32) weds Sharon Goodson

17944th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia

1951Actor Peter Sellers (26) weds actress Anne Howe n London, England

1957Country music legend Patsy Cline (25) weds linotype operator Charles Dick (23) in Winchester, England

2004Johnny Ramone, American lead guitarist of the punk rock band The Ramones

1938Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 37