13 September
Notable Births
Yeonjun
b. 1999
South Korean singer (born 1999)
Adrian Kempe
b. 1996
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1996)
Lili Reinhart
b. 1996
American actress (born 1996)
Jerry Tollbring
b. 1995
Swedish handball player (born 1995)
Leonor Andrade
b. 1994
Portuguese singer and actress
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová
b. 1994
Slovak tennis player (born 1994)
Cameron Munster
b. 1994
Australia international rugby league footballer
Sepp Kuss
b. 1994
American cyclist (born 1994)
Niall Horan
b. 1993
Irish singer-songwriter (born 1993)
Alice Merton
b. 1993
German-Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
Darren Waller
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Ksenia Afanasyeva
b. 1991
Russian artistic gymnast
Craig Cunningham
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Luciano Narsingh
b. 1990
Dutch footballer (born 1990)
Elysée (footballer)
b. 1989
Ivorian footballer
Kenny Edwards (rugby league)
b. 1989
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Jon Mannah
b. 1989
Australian rugby league footballer
Thomas Müller
b. 1989
German footballer (born 1989)
Edenilson Bergonsi
b. 1987
Brazilian footballer (born 1987)
Jonathan de Guzmán
b. 1987
Dutch association football player
Notable Deaths
Wolfgang Gerhardt
d. 2024
German politician (1943–2024)
Pravin Gordhan
d. 2024
South African politician (1949–2024)
Lex Marinos
d. 2024
Australian actor (1949–2024)
Mary McFadden
d. 2024
American fashion designer (1938–2024)
Jean-Luc Godard
d. 2022
French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
Eddie Money
d. 2019
American musician (1949–2019)
Pete Domenici
d. 2017
American politician (1932–2017)
Erma Bergmann
d. 2015
Baseball player
Brian Close
d. 2015
English cricketer (1931–2015)
Moses Malone
d. 2015
American basketball player (1955–2015)
Benjamin Adekunle
d. 2014
Nigerian Army officer
Helen Filarski
d. 2014
American baseball player (1924–2014)
Milan Galić
d. 2014
Serbian footballer
Frank Torre
d. 2014
American baseball player (1931–2014)
Robert J. Behnke
d. 2013
American fisheries biologist
Rick Casares
d. 2013
American football player (1931–2013)
Luiz Gushiken
d. 2013
Brazilian union leader and politician
Peter Lougheed
d. 2012
Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985
Ranganath Misra
d. 2012
21st Chief Justice of India
Walter Bonatti
d. 2011
Italian mountaineer and alpinist (1930–2011)
On This Day in History
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2013
Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
Taliban
2008
Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
Delhi
2007
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2007
The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.
McLaren
2001
Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
September 11 attacks
1997
A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.
German Air Force
1993
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
Yitzhak Rabin
1989
Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
Apartheid
1988
Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
Hurricane Gilbert
1987
Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
Goiânia accident
1986
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.
1986 Kalamata earthquake
1985
Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
Super Mario Bros.
1982
Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.
Spantax Flight 995
1979
South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
Venda (Bantustan)
1971
State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
National Guard (United States)
1971
Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
Mao Zedong
1968
Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
Cold War
1964
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
1964
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1962
An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
James Meredith