On This Day in September

376 entries

• 2004 — The Crisis in Beslan commences when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school...
• 1991 — Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1985 — A joint American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.

345 entries

• 2013 — The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM...
• 2009 — The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical...
• 1998 — Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.

332 entries

• 2017 — North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test
• 2016 — The US and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both...
• 2001 — In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary...

342 entries

• 2010 — A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread...
• 2007 — Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after...
• 2002 — The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.

404 entries

• 2012 — An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in Afyon, western Turkey...
• 1996 — Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm...
• 1991 — The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal...

356 entries

• 2012 — Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of...
• 2009 — The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with...
• 2007 — Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.

422 entries

• 2017 — The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
• 2012 — Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and...
• 2011 — A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the...

419 entries

• 2005 — Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster aid staging area at Little...
• 2004 — NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
• 1994 — USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in...

382 entries

• 2015 — Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
• 2012 — The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a...
• 2012 — A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.

375 entries

• 2017 — Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, after...
• 2008 — The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in...
• 2007 — Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years...

411 entries

• 2015 — A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people...
• 2012 — A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
• 2012 — The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

383 entries

• 2015 — A series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining...
• 2014 — Three-year-old William Tyrrell disappears in Kendall, New South Wales, Australia
• 2011 — The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.

394 entries

• 2013 — Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two...
• 2008 — Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
• 2008 — Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing...

432 entries

• 2015 — The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo...
• 2007 — Financial crisis of 2007-2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run...
• 2003 — In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

399 entries

• 2017 — The Parsons Green Bombing took place in London, United Kingdom
• 2008 — Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
• 2004 — National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players'...

401 entries

• 2014 — The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against...
• 2013 — A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
• 2007 — One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand...

425 entries

• 2016 — Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. 31 people are...
• 2011 — Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
• 2006 — Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant...

427 entries

• 2016 — Seventeen Indian Army security personnel killed in the Indian Administrated Kashmir by...
• 2015 — Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed...
• 2014 — Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.

357 entries

• 2017 — On the 32nd anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a powerful earthquake...
• 2016 — In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New...
• 2011 — Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League...

350 entries

• 2011 — The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men...
• 2008 — A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad,...
• 2007 — Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six...

373 entries

• 2013 — Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya,...
• 2003 — The Galileo Probe is terminated by sending it into Jupiter.
• 2001 — America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels,...

356 entries

• 2013 — At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
• 1995 — An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird...
• 1995 — Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least...

353 entries

• 2008 — Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
• 2004 — Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
• 2002 — The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

354 entries

• 2015 — At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the...
• 2014 — The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian...
• 2013 — A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.

411 entries

• 2003 — The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
• 1992 — NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S....
• 1983 — Maze Prison escape: Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a...

406 entries

• 2014 — A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.
• 2009 — Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand,...
• 2008 — Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered...

395 entries

• 2014 — Eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
• 2012 — A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, Minnesota,...
• 2008 — CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk...

370 entries

• 2014 — Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong's...
• 2012 — Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port city...
• 2009 — The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped,...

395 entries

• 2013 — Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in...
• 2009 — The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong)....
• 2008 — Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones...

322 entries

• 2017 — Titus Zeman SDB. - priest, beatification ceremony in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• 2016 — Hurricane Matthew became a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to...
• 2009 — The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake shakes central Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity...