Today is Friday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2026. There are 97 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Sept. 25, 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)<\/p>\n
In 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.<\/p>\n
In 1957, nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army\u2019s 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard.<\/p>\n
In 2005, in the presence of disarmament observers, the Irish Republican Army decommissioned its arsenal of weapons, officially ending a 36-year armed campaign for a unified Irish state.<\/p>\n
In 2012, President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him \u201ca dictator who massacres his own people.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2013, skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America\u2019s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n
In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.)<\/p>\n
In 2025, a Paris court sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya. He served about three weeks behind bars before his conditional release while appealing his conviction.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Basketball Hall of Famer Hubie Brown is 93.
\nFormer Defense Secretary Robert Gates is 83.
\nActor-producer Michael Douglas is 82.
\nModel Cheryl Tiegs is 79.
\nActor Mimi Kennedy is 78.
\nFilm director Pedro Almodovar is 77.
\nActor-director Anson Williams is 77.
\nActor Mark Hamill is 75.
\nBasketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo is 75.
\nActor Heather Locklear is 65.
\nActor Aida Turturro is 64.
\nActor Tate Donovan is 63.
\nActor Maria Doyle Kennedy is 62.
\nBasketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 61.
\nActor Will Smith is 58.
\nActor Catherine Zeta-Jones is 57.
\nBasketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is 50.
\nActor Clea DuVall is 49.
\nRapper T.I. is 46.
\nActor-rapper Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) is 43.
\nActor Zach Woods is 42.
\nActor Jordan Gavaris is 37.
\nActor Bella Ramsey is 23.
\nActor Leah Jeffries is 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Friday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2026. There are 97 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,186778,75,186777,9039],"class_list":["post-475193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-jetliner-crash","tag-san-diego-news","tag-september-25-history","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}