Today in History - History - September 15th

1978Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1968"Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV

1812French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow

1926Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini

1943Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy

1959Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit

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.

1997Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000

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

1940PM Winston Churchill visits 11 Fighter Group

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1991NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly

1962Actress Janet Leigh (35) weds stockbroker Robert Brandt

1981Professional boxer George Foreman (32) weds Sharon Goodson

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

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

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

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