11 September
Notable Births
Joseph Fahnbulleh
b. 2001
Liberian-American sprinter (born 2001)
Leandro Bolmaro
b. 2000
Argentine-Italian basketball player (born 2000)
Zay Flowers
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
Harmony Tan
b. 1997
French tennis player (born 1997)
Ross Colton
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Teuvo Teräväinen
b. 1994
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Farrah Moan
b. 1993
American drag queen and entertainer
Jordan Ayew
b. 1991
Ghanaian footballer (born 1991)
Kygo
b. 1991
Norwegian record producer (born 1991)
Jo Inge Berget
b. 1990
Norwegian footballer (born 1990)
Michael J. Willett
b. 1989
American actor
Robert Acquafresca
b. 1987
Italian footballer (born 1987)
Elizabeth Henstridge
b. 1987
English actress, model and director
Tyler Hoechlin
b. 1987
American actor (born 1987)
Chiliboy Ralepelle
b. 1986
South African rugby union player (born 1986)
LaToya Sanders
b. 1986
American-Turkish basketball player (born 1986)
Ben Scrivens
b. 1986
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1986)
Shaun Livingston
b. 1985
American basketball player (born 1985)
Vivian Cheruiyot
b. 1983
Kenyan long-distance runner
Ike Diogu
b. 1983
Nigerian-American basketball player
Notable Deaths
Kenneth Cope
d. 2024
British actor (1931–2024)
Alberto Fujimori
d. 2024
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
Chad McQueen
d. 2024
American actor and race car driver (1960–2024)
Joe Schmidt (American football)
d. 2024
American football player and coach (1932–2024)
Javier Marías
d. 2022
Spanish novelist, translator, and columnist (1951–2022)
John W. O'Malley
d. 2022
American academic, Catholic historian, and Jesuit priest (1927–2022)
Joyce Reynolds (classicist)
d. 2022
British classicist (1918–2022)
Abimael Guzmán
d. 2021
Peruvian Maoist terrorist leader (1934–2021)
Toots Hibbert
d. 2020
Jamaican musician (1942–2020)
Agnivesh
d. 2020
Indian Marxist social activist and politician (1939–2020)
B. J. Habibie
d. 2019
President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999
Alexis Arquette
d. 2016
American actress (1969–2016)
Antoine Duhamel
d. 2014
French composer (1925–2014)
Donald Sinden
d. 2014
English actor (1923–2014)
Francisco Chavez
d. 2013
Filipino lawyer and former Solicitor General
Albert Jacquard
d. 2013
French biologist (1925–2013)
Andrzej Trybulec
d. 2013
Polish mathematician and computer scientist
Finn Bergesen
d. 2012
Norwegian civil servant and businessperson
J. Christopher Stevens
d. 2012
American diplomat and lawyer (1960-2012)
Anjali Gupta
d. 2011
Indian Air Force officer
On This Day in History
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2024
Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane.
Hurricane Francine
2023
The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing thousands of people.
Derna, Libya
2015
A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
Mecca crane collapse
2012
A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
2012 Pakistan factory fires
2012
The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
Benghazi
2011
A dedication ceremony is held at the United States National September 11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the memorial opens to family members.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
2008
A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
2008 Channel Tunnel fire
2007
Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
Conventional weapon
2001
The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
September 11 attacks
1997
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
NASA
1997
Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training exercise in the Kurkse Strait.
Kurkse tragedy
1997
After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
1997 Scottish devolution referendum
1995
The first game of the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, pitting incumbent champion Garry Kasparov against challenger Viswanathan Anand, takes place on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York City.
Classical World Chess Championship 1995
1992
Hurricane Iniki strikes the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaii, killing 7 and causing $3.1bn in economic damages.
Hurricane Iniki
1991
Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.
Continental Express Flight 2574
1990
A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.
Faucett Perú
1989
Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
East Germany
1985
Moimenta-Alcafache train crash, the worst railway accident to occur in Portugal.
Moimenta-Alcafache train crash
1982
The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
Palestinian refugees
1980
A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is subject to controversy in Chile today.
Chilean Constitution of 1980