Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2026. There are 107 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On Sept. 15, 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.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1835, Charles Darwin reached the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle.<\/p>\n
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in Nazi Germany, depriving German Jews of their citizenship.<\/p>\n
In 1940, the tide turned in the Battle of Britain in World War II, as the Royal Air Force inflicted heavy losses upon the Luftwaffe.<\/p>\n
In 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.<\/p>\n
In 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)<\/p>\n
In 1978, Muhammad Ali became the first boxer to capture the heavyweight title three times, winning by unanimous decision in his rematch with Leon Spinks.<\/p>\n
In 2008, as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 in the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.<\/p>\n
In 2021, SpaceX\u2019s first private flight streaked into orbit with two contest winners, a healthcare worker and their billionaire sponsor, in the most ambitious leap yet in space tourism. The trip dubbed Inspiration4 marked the first time a spacecraft circled Earth with an all-amateur crew and no professional astronauts.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Israel signed historic diplomatic pacts with two Gulf Arab states at a White House ceremony President Donald Trump called the \u201cdawn of a new Middle East.\u201d The bilateral agreements formalized the normalization of Israeli relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.<\/p>\n
In 2024, a man aiming a rifle through shrubs as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida, country club was spotted by a Secret Service agent who fired at him, prompting the man to drop his gun and run without firing a shot. Ryan Routh was later convicted of trying to assassinate Trump and sentenced to life in prison.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Writer-director Ron Shelton is 81.
\nActor Tommy Lee Jones is 80.
\nFilm director Oliver Stone is 80.
\nTV personality Lisa Vanderpump is 66.
\nFootball Hall of Famer Dan Marino is 65.
\nActor Josh Charles is 55.
\nOlympic gold medal swimmer Tom Dolan is 51.
\nActor Tom Hardy is 49.
\nActor Amy Davidson is 47.
\nActor Dave Annable is 47.
\nPrince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is 42.
\nTV personality Heidi Montag is 40.
\nSinger-songwriter Ella Boh is 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2026. There are 107 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,129880,63,129879,134,136,135,3646],"class_list":["post-347164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newark-bay-bridge-train-crash","tag-nyc","tag-september-15-history","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}