Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/September 15

• 1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
• 1835 – The HMS Beagle (pictured), with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
• 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
• 1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
• 1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

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