Today in History
2 September
228 births · 116 deaths · 56 events recorded
Notable Births
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Nickeil Alexander-Walker
b. 1998
Canadian basketball player (born 1998)
Choi Ye-bin
b. 1998
South Korean actress (born 1998)
Brandon Ingram
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Austin Abrams
b. 1996
American actor (born 1996)
Willy Adames
b. 1995
Dominican baseball infielder (born 1995)
Aleksander Barkov
b. 1995
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1995)
Bill Shankly
b. 1913
Scottish footballer and manager (1913–1981)
Dezső Kertész
b. 1892
Hungarian actor, director
Notable Deaths
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James Darren
d. 2024
American actor (1936–2024)
Rodolfo Hernández Suárez
d. 2024
Colombian politician (1945–2024)
Frank Drake
d. 2022
American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)
T. V. Sankaranarayanan
d. 2022
Indian musical artist (1945–2022)
Sidharth Shukla
d. 2021
Indian actor and model (1980–2021)
Mikis Theodorakis
d. 2021
Greek composer (1925–2021)
Claire Wineland
d. 2018
American activist and author (1997–2018)
Barbara McClintock
d. 1992
American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902–1992)
On This Day in History
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2024
Four people are killed in a mass shooting targeting homeless people on a Chicago Transit Authority train in Forest Park, Illinois, United States.
Chicago "L"
2024
A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 6 people and injures 13.
2024 Qala Bakhtiar bombing
2024
At least 129 inmates are killed and 59 more injured in an attempted prison break at Makala Prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2024 Makala jailbreak attempt
2023
India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
Aditya-L1
2022
Eighteen people are killed and 23 others are injured by a suicide bombing at a Sunni mosque in Herat, Afghanistan.
2022 Herat mosque bombing
2019
Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
Hurricane Dorian
2019
The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34.
Sinking of MV Conception
2018
National Museum of Brazil fire, A massive fire destroys most of the Paço de São Cristóvão, which houses the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. The museum holds important archaeοlogical and anthropological objects, including the remains of the Luzia Woman, Marajoara vases and Egyptian mummies.
National Museum of Brazil fire