At present is Thursday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2025. There are 104 days left within the yr.
At present in historical past:
On Sept. 18, 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Military.
Additionally on this date:
In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
In 1850, Congress handed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a pressure of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their homeowners. The act was repealed in 1864 throughout the American Civil Struggle.
In 1851, the primary version of The New York Instances was printed.
In 1947, the Nationwide Safety Act, which created a Nationwide Army Institution and the place of Secretary of Protection, went into impact.
In 1961, United Nations Secretary-Basic Dag Hammarskjold (dahg HAWM’-ahr-shoold) was killed in a airplane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.
In 2014, voters in Scotland rejected independence, opting to stay a part of the UK in a historic referendum.
In 2020, Supreme Court docket Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering champion of girls’s rights who grew to become the courtroom’s second feminine justice, died at her residence in Washington at age 87, of problems from pancreatic most cancers.
At present’s Birthdays:
- Hockey Corridor of Fame coach Scotty Bowman is 92.
- Singer Frankie Avalon is 85.
- Actor Anna Deavere Smith is 75.
- Neurosurgeon-author-politician Ben Carson is 74.
- Basketball Corridor of Fame coach Rick Pitino is 73.
- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, is 71.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Peter Šťastný is 69.
- Actor Holly Robinson Peete is 61.
- R&B singer Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe, New Version) is 58.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Toni Kukoč is 57.
- Actor Aisha Tyler is 55.
- Actor Jada Pinkett Smith is 54.
- Actor James Marsden is 52.
- Rapper-TV host Xzibit is 51.
- Comic-actor Jason Sudeikis is 50.
- Former soccer participant Ronaldo is 49.
- TV host Sara Haines is 48.
- Actor/comic Billy Eichner is 47.
- Rapper Dizzee Rascal is 41.
- Nation singer Tae Kerr (Maddie and Tae) is 30.
- Soccer participant Christian Pulisic is 27.