Acting the goat

... well sheep... close enough, sort of...

Cause everyone else is, here is September the 15th in the realm of history. Rules have been mixed and never the same so I am going with 6 of the best because I can so...

** sticks tongue out and blows rasberry **

EVENTS: (Some real interesting ones... hard picking a top 6 here)

668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.
1857 - Timothy Alder patents the typesetting machine.
1916 - World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1949 - The television series The Lone Ranger premieres on the ABC.


BIRTHS: (Again some interesting ones...)

1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, eminent Indian engineer and statesman.
1879 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor


DEATHS:

1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1898)