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TODAY IN HISTORY

September 12

Saturday, September 12, 2026

Day 254 of 2026 | Week 37 | 105 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2021

Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

2
2014

Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua.

3
2013

NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.

4
2012

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.

5
2008

The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.

6
2007

Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.

7
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.

8
2005

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.

9
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.

10
2003

Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1977 Grant Denyer

Australian television personality and TV Host

1976 Maciej Żurawski

Polish footballer

1974 Caroline Aigle

French first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force aged 25

1974 Jennifer Nettles

American country singer (Sugarland)

1974 Nuno Valente

Portuguese soccer defender (32 caps; Porto

1973 Darren Campbell

British athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 2004

1973 Martin Lapointe

Canadian ice hockey player

1973 Maximiliano Hernández

American actor (Mr. Mercedes; The Americans

1973 Tarana Burke

American activist

1972 Avijit Roy

Bangladeshi-American anti-censorship activist and blogger

1972 Paul Green

Australian rugby league coach (North Queensland Cowboys NRL premiership 2015; Queensland) and halfback (Australia SL 2 games

1971 Terry Dehere

American politician and NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)

1970 Nathan Larson

American guitarist and composer (Shudder To Think

1969 James Frey

American writer (Bright Shiny Morning)

1969 Shigeki Maruyama

Japanese golfer (3 PGA Tour titles; Presidents Cup 1998

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