Today in History
12 September
229 births · 98 deaths · 64 events recorded
Notable Births
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Ziaire Williams
b. 2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Jerome Ford
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Sydney Sweeney
b. 1997
American actress (born 1997)
Almida de Val
b. 1997
Swedish curler (born 1997)
Colin Ford
b. 1996
American actor (born 1996)
Steven Gardiner
b. 1995
Bahamian sprinter (born 1995)
Druski
b. 1994
American comedian, actor, and influencer (born 1994)
Norm Dubé
b. 1951
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1951)
Notable Deaths
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Sitaram Yechury
d. 2024
Indian politician (1952–2024)
ʻAkilisi Pōhiva
d. 2019
Tongan politician (1941–2019)
Shen Chun-shan
d. 2018
Taiwanese physicist (1932–2018)
Allan MacEachen
d. 2017
Canadian politician
Edith Windsor
d. 2017
American LGBTQ rights activist and technology manager (1929–2017)
Claudia Card
d. 2015
American philosopher
Atef Ebeid
d. 2014
Prime Minister of Egypt from 1999 to 2004
Anthony Perkins
d. 1992
American actor (1932–1992)
On This Day in History
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2021
Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51
2014
Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua.
Synagogue Church building collapse
2013
NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
NASA
2012
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2012)
2008
The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
2008 Chatsworth train collision
2007
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
Joseph Estrada
2007
Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.
2007 Bengkulu earthquakes
2005
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict