Today is Sunday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2024.
There are 107 days left in the year.
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)
1835 — Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle.
1935 — The Nuremberg Laws were enacted in Nazi Germany, depriving German Jews of their citizenship.
1940 — The tide turned in the Battle of Britain in World War II, as the Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.
1958 — A commuter train headed for New York City plunged into Newark Bay after missing a stop signal and sliding off the open Newark Bay lift bridge, killing 48 people.
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1959 — Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet head of state to visit the United States as he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
1978 — Muhammad Ali became the first boxer to capture the heavyweight title three times, winning by unanimous decision in his rematch with Leon Spinks.
2008 — As a result of the subprime mortgage crisis, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 in the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.
