10 September
Notable Births
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)
Brooke Henderson
b. 1997
Canadian professional golfer (born 1997)
Troy Terry
b. 1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Jack Grealish
b. 1995
English footballer (born 1995)
Matt Rife
b. 1995
American comedian and actor (born 1995)
Sam Kerr
b. 1993
Australian soccer player (born 1993)
Ricky Ledo
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Sam Morsy
b. 1991
Egypt international footballer (born 1991)
Corban Knight
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Manish Pandey
b. 1989
Indian cricketer (born 1989)
Matt Ritchie
b. 1989
Footballer (born 1989)
Jordan Staal
b. 1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Jared Lee Loughner
b. 1988
American mass murderer (born 1988)
Paul Goldschmidt
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Alex Saxon (actor)
b. 1987
American actor
Angel McCoughtry
b. 1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
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
Richard Kiel
d. 2014
American actor (1939–2014)
Edward Nelson
d. 2014
American mathematician (1932–2014)
George Spencer (baseball)
d. 2014
American baseball player (1926–2014)
Ibrahim Makhous
d. 2013
Syrian politician
Josef Němec
d. 2013
Czechoslovak boxer (1933–2013)
Clay Shaw (politician)
d. 2013
American politician (1939–2013)
Raquel Correa
d. 2012
Chilean journalist
Robert Gammage
d. 2012
American politician (1938–2012)
Lance LeGault
d. 2012
American actor (1935–2012)
Stanley Long
d. 2012
English film director (1933–2012)
John Moffatt (actor)
d. 2012
English actor and playwright (1922–2012)
Cliff Robertson
d. 2011
American actor (1923–2011)
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
2000
Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
Operation Barras
1977
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
Hamida Djandoubi
1976
A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
1974
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
Guinea-Bissau
1967
The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1967 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum
1961
In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
1961 Italian Grand Prix
1960
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
Abebe Bikila
1943
World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
Operation Achse
1942
World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
Battle of Madagascar
1939
World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
World War II
1939
World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.
Canadian declaration of war on Germany
1937
Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
Nyon Conference