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A bit of September 15th history…
1821 - Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvadore, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua declare their independence from the Spanish Empire
1835 - HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reaches the Galapagos Islands
1916 - 1st use of tanks in warfare; “Little Willies” at Battle of Flers-Courcelette
1928 - Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1966 - US President Johnson, responding to sniper attack at University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to US Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation (pictured)
2014 - President Obama announces the US will send 3,000 troops to help control the spread of the Ebola virus
2018 - Archaeologists find the oldest known brewery and remains of 13,000 year old beer in Haifa Cave, Israel; belonged to the nomadic Natufian people
A bit of September 15th history… 1821 - Act of Independence of...