12 September
Notable Births
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)
RM (musician)
b. 1994
South Korean rapper (born 1994)
Elina Svitolina
b. 1994
Ukrainian tennis player (born 1994)
Kelsea Ballerini
b. 1993
American country singer (born 1993)
Alexia Fast
b. 1992
Canadian actress (born 1992)
Scott Wootton
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
Freddie Freeman
b. 1989
Canadian-American baseball player (born 1989)
Andrew Luck
b. 1989
American football player and executive (born 1989)
Amanda Jenssen
b. 1988
Swedish singer and songwriter
Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson
b. 1988
Icelandic politician (born 1988)
Alfie Allen
b. 1986
English actor (born 1986)
Joanne Jackson (swimmer)
b. 1986
English swimmer
Yūto Nagatomo
b. 1986
Japanese footballer (born 1986)
Emmy Rossum
b. 1986
American actress and singer (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
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
Ian Paisley
d. 2014
Northern Irish politician and religious leader (1926–2014)
Joe Sample
d. 2014
American jazz musician and composer (1939–2014)
Ray Dolby
d. 2013
American electrical engineer and inventor (1933–2013)
Warren Giese
d. 2013
American football player and politician
Erich Loest
d. 2013
German writer
Candace Pert
d. 2013
American neuroscientist (1946–2013)
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
d. 2012
Russian writer (1946–2012)
Jon Finlayson
d. 2012
Australian actor (1938–2012)
Alexander Galimov
d. 2011
Russian ice hockey player
Claude Chabrol
d. 2010
French film director (1930–2010)
Giulio Zignoli
d. 2010
Italian footballer
Norman Borlaug
d. 2009
American agronomist and Nobel Laureate (1914–2009)
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
2003
The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
United Nations
2003
Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
Iraq War
2003
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
Typhoon Maemi
2001
Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
Ansett Australia
1994
Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
Frank Eugene Corder
1993
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51.
STS-51
1992
NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
NASA
1992
Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
Abimael Guzmán
1991
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1990
The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
Allied Control Council
1990
The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
Red Cross Society of China
1988
Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
Hurricane Gilbert