24 September
Featured Birthday · Born 1965
Janet Weiss
American rock drummer (born 1965)
Notable Births
Joe Locke
b. 2003
British actor (born 2003)
Gaeul (singer)
b. 2002
South Korean singer (born 2002)
Nikolas Cruz
b. 1998
American mass murderer (born 1998)
Tosin Adarabioyo
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Sonya Deville
b. 1993
American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Ben Platt
b. 1993
American actor and singer (born 1993)
Oriol Romeu
b. 1991
Spanish footballer (born 1991)
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)
Michael J. S. Dewar
b. 1918
American chemist
Ben Oakland
b. 1907
Musical artist
Adélard Godbout
b. 1892
Premier of Quebec in 1936 and from 1939 to 1944
Gustave Garrigou
b. 1884
French cyclist
Eugene Foss
b. 1858
American politician (1858–1939)
Notable Deaths
Sara Jane Moore
d. 2025
American convicted of presidential assassination attempt (1930–2025)
Pharoah Sanders
d. 2022
American jazz saxophonist (1940–2022)
Dean Jones (cricketer)
d. 2020
Australian cricketer (1961–2020)
Bill Mollison
d. 2016
Australian scientist (1928–2016)
Bill Nunn
d. 2016
American actor (1953–2016)
Buckwheat Zydeco
d. 2016
American accordionist (1947–2016)
Alan Moore (war artist)
d. 2015
Australian war artist during World War II
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
d. 2014
English aristocrat and writer (1920–2014)
Christopher Hogwood
d. 2014
English conductor and musicologist (1941–2014)
Margaret Feilman
d. 2013
Australian architect, landscape designer, town planner (1921–2013)
Paul Dietzel
d. 2013
American football player, coach, and administrator (1924–2013)
Sagadat Nurmagambetov
d. 2013
Soviet-Kazakh general
Paul Oliver (American football)
d. 2013
American football player (1984–2013)
Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
d. 2012
Mexican politician
Gennady Yanayev
d. 2010
Vice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991
Nelly Arcan
d. 2009
Canadian novelist
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
2005
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
Hurricane Rita
1996
Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
1993
The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
Monarchy of Cambodia
1975
Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition
1973
Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
Guinea-Bissau
1972
Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, overrunning the runway and resulting in 11 injuries.
Japan Air Lines Flight 472 (1972)
1960
USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
1959
TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.
TAI Flight 307
1957
President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
101st Airborne Division
1954
AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced.
AEC Routemaster
1954
The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated.
Route 7 (Bolivia)
1950
The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada.
Chinchaga fire