Portal:United States/Anniversaries/September/September 15
- 1857 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States, the only man to hold both postings, was born. During his lifetime Taft would also serve as the 1st Civil Governor of the Philippines and the 1st Provisional Governor of Cuba.
- 1944 – The Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
- 1950 – United States forces perform an amphibious landing off the coast of Inchon, Korea. The Battle of Inchon would prove to be a turning point in the Korean War.
- 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
- 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- 1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor (pictured) to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States