September 15 is one of those dates that quietly holds way more than it should. Tom Hardy turns 48 today, and the man’s résumé reads like a dare: Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, Max in Mad Max: Fury Road, an Oscar nomination for The Revenant, a BAFTA Rising Star award, an ambassadorship with the Prince’s Trust, and a competitive Brazilian jiu-jitsu career he actually takes seriously. Most actors pick one lane. Hardy just keeps collecting them.
The rest of the date is just as stacked. Google.com first appeared online on September 15, 1998 — which means the search bar you’ve used before you even had coffee is now old enough to have a mortgage. Forbes Magazine was founded 107 years ago today. Agatha Christie, still the best-selling novelist of all time, was born 134 years ago. Marco Polo, the first European to chronicle his travels through Asia, was born 767 years ago. Five Central American nations — Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua — celebrate independence from Spain today. And Oliver Stone and Tommy Lee Jones share a birthday, both turning 79.
Add in the 1940 turning of the tide in the Battle of Britain and a 1987 nuclear risk-reduction treaty, and you’ve got a date that covers movies, mystery novels, medieval exploration, and world history in one scroll. Which one of these September 15 milestones surprised you the most?
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