Today in History - History - September 15th

1966U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

1940PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group

1997Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000

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

1980Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"

1938British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden

1982Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat

1904Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight

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

1996Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1981Professional boxer George Foreman (32) weds Sharon Goodson

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

1991NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly

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

1962Actress Janet Leigh (35) weds stockbroker Robert Brandt

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

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