As we speak is Monday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2025. There are 107 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Sept. 15, 2008, because of the subprime mortgage disaster, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 within the largest chapter submitting in U.S. historical past.
Additionally on this date:
In 1835, Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Legal guidelines had been enacted in Nazi Germany, depriving German Jews of their citizenship.
In 1940, the tide turned within the Battle of Britain in World Warfare II, because the Royal Air Drive inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.
In 1958, a commuter prepare headed for New York Metropolis plunged into Newark Bay after lacking a cease sign and sliding off the open Newark Bay raise bridge, killing 48 individuals.
In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev grew to become the primary Soviet head of state to go to the US as he arrived at Andrews Air Drive Base outdoors Washington.
In 1963, 4 Black women had been killed when a bomb went off throughout Sunday providers on the sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen had been ultimately convicted for his or her roles within the blast.)
In 1978, Muhammad Ali grew to become the primary boxer to seize the heavyweight title thrice, successful by unanimous choice in his rematch with Leon Spinks.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Author-director Ron Shelton is 80.
- Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 79.
- Movie director Oliver Stone is 79.
- Soccer coach Pete Carroll is 74.
- TV character Lisa Vanderpump is 65.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Dan Marino is 64.
- Actor Josh Charles is 54.
- Olympic gold medal swimmer Tom Dolan is 50.
- Actor Tom Hardy is 48.
- Actor Amy Davidson is 46.
- Actor Dave Annable is 46.
- Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is 41.
- TV character Heidi Montag is 39.
