September 15, 2023: This Day in History

September 15, 1254: Marco Polo, an Italian traveler, was born.

September 15, 1821: Nicaragua declared independence.

September 15, 1894: Zuo Baogui, a Qing Dynasty general who resisted Japan, passed away.

September 15, 1909: Tan Jiazhen, one of the founders of modern genetics in China, was born.

September 15, 1915: Chen Duxiu founded the Youth Magazine.

September 15, 1916: Tanks were first used in World War I, demonstrating their power.

September 15, 1928: Fleming invented penicillin.

September 15, 1931: Huang Gonglue died.

September 15, 1931: The Provisional Central Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China was established.

September 15, 1932: Japan officially recognized "Manchukuo".

September 15, 1936: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed the establishment of a democratic republic.

September 15, 1939: The Soviet army defeated the Japanese army, bringing the Nomonhan Incident to an end.

September 15, 1940: A large-scale air battle broke out between the British and German air forces.

September 15, 1942: Zhou Enlai summarized the experience and lessons of the CCP's united front.

September 15, 1944: The CCP proposed the establishment of a coalition government.

September 15, 1950: The US military landed at Incheon.

September 15, 1953: The United Nations General Assembly rejected China's application for membership.

September 15, 1954: The First Session of the First National People's Congress was held in Beijing.

September 15, 1956: The 8th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stated that the primary contradiction was no longer class struggle.

September 15, 1956: The Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held.

September 15, 1971: Greenpeace was founded.

September 15, 1975: Feng Zikai, a modern painter and writer, passed away.

September 15, 1981: The first phase of the Beijing subway project was officially put into operation.

September 15, 1988: Deng Yingchao met with Hu Qiu-yuan, a "legislator" from Taiwan.

September 15, 1990: Domestic videophones were first launched between Beijing and Shanghai.

September 15, 1991: The largest US-made artificial satellite, weighing 6.6 tons, entered space.

September 15, 1993: The Yangpu Bridge, the world's first cable-stayed bridge, was completed.

September 15, 1993: Environmental organizations sued two US institutions for helping design the Three Gorges Dam.

September 15, 1995: The Fourth World Conference on Women concluded.

September 15, 1996: The Women Parliamentarians' Conference of the 96th Session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union was held in Beijing.

September 15, 1998: The new Zhejiang University was established.

September 15, 1998: Hundreds of thousands of Jiujiang citizens saw off flood control soldiers.

September 15, 2001: China's first National Defense Education Day.

September 15, 2016: Tiangong-2 was successfully launched.

September 15, 2016: Typhoon "Meranti", the strongest typhoon of the year, landed in Fujian.

September 15, 2017: The Cassini spacecraft self-destructed.

September 15, 2017: Nan Rendong, the "father of FAST", passed away.