Today in History
10 September
249 births · 116 deaths · 45 events recorded
Notable Births
All 249 ›
Armando Broja
b. 2001
Albanian footballer (born 2001)
Nick Cross (American football)
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Jschlatt
b. 1999
American internet personality (born 1999)
Anna Blinkova
b. 1998
Russian tennis player (born 1998)
Sheck Wes
b. 1998
American rapper (born 1998)
Sam Kerr
b. 1993
Australian soccer player (born 1993)
Germán Denis
b. 1981
Argentine footballer (born 1981)
Yevgeny Khrunov
b. 1933
Soviet cosmonaut (1933–2000)
Notable Deaths
All 116 ›
Frankie Beverly
d. 2024
American singer (1946–2024)
Jim Sasser
d. 2024
American politician (1936–2024)
Ian Wilmut
d. 2023
British embryologist (1944–2023)
Diana Rigg
d. 2020
English actress (1938–2020)
Norman Farberow
d. 2015
American psychologist
Adrian Frutiger
d. 2015
Swiss typeface designer (1928–2015)
Antoine Lahad
d. 2015
Leader of the South Lebanon Army during the Lebanese Civil War
Emilio Botín
d. 2014
Spanish banker
On This Day in History
All 45 ›2025
American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Conservatism in the United States
2024
Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Polaris Dawn
2017
Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
Hurricane Irma
2008
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Large Hadron Collider
2007
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
Nawaz Sharif
2002
Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
Foreign relations of Switzerland
2001
Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
Antônio da Costa Santos
2001
During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.
Charles Ingram