Today in History
24 September
229 births · 102 deaths · 43 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1939
Moti Kirschenbaum
Israeli television presenter
Notable Births
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Eloise Mumford
b. 1986
American actress (born 1986)
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila
b. 1977
American football player (born 1977)
Janet Weiss
b. 1965
American rock drummer (born 1965)
Christopher L. Eisgruber
b. 1961
20th President of Princeton University (born 1961)
Marco Tardelli
b. 1954
Italian footballer
Moti Kirschenbaum
b. 1939
Israeli television presenter
Benjamin Romualdez
b. 1930
Filipino politician (1930–2012)
Arthur Malet
b. 1927
British actor (1927–2013)
Notable Deaths
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Sara Jane Moore
d. 2025
American convicted of presidential assassination attempt (1930–2025)
Pharoah Sanders
d. 2022
American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)
Margaret Feilman
d. 2013
Australian architect, landscape designer, town planner (1921–2013)
Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
d. 2012
Mexican politician
Françoise Sagan
d. 2004
French writer (1935–2004)
Charles Leroux
d. 1889
American balloonist and parachutist (1856–1889)
William Debenham
d. 1863
British businessman
Welf II, Duke of Bavaria
d. 1120
Duke of Bavaria
On This Day in History
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2023
NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.
NASA
2015
At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
2015 Mina crowd crush
2014
The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
Mars Orbiter Mission
2013
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.
Moment magnitude scale
2009
The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance.
2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit
2009
South African Airlink Flight 8911 crashes near Durban International Airport in Durban, South Africa, killing the captain and injuring the rest of the crew.
South African Airlink Flight 8911
2008
Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.
Thabo Mbeki
2007
Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
Saffron Revolution