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TODAY IN HISTORY

September 14

Monday, September 14, 2026

Day 256 of 2026 | Week 38 | 103 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2022

Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames.

2
2019

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

3
2015

The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

4
2008

Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.

5
2007

Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

6
2003

In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

7
2003

Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.

8
2002

Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.

9
2001

Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

10
2000

Microsoft releases Windows Me.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1970 Craig Montoya

American bass player (Everclear)

1970 Francesco Casagrande

Italian road racing cyclist

1970 Ketanji Brown Jackson

American attorney and judge

1968 Dan Cortese

American television host and actor (Melrose Place

1968 Ginger Helgeson-Nielson

American tennis star

1968 Vincent Ghadimi

Belgian pianist and composer

1967 John Power

British singer-songwriter

1966 Mike Cooley

American guitarist (Drive-By Truckers)

1965 Troy Neel

American baseball player

1964 Faith Ford

American actress (Corky Sherwood in "Murphy Brown")

1964 Kurt Gouveia

American NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)

1963 Jaromir Dragan

Slovak ice hockey goalie (1992 Winter Olympics Bronze)

1962 Robert Herjavec

Croatian-Canadian businessman (BRAK Systems

1962 Tom Kurvers

American ice hockey defenseman (Hobey Baker Award 1984; Stanley Cup 1986 Montreal Canadiens)

1961 Antonia De Sancha

English actress and lover of British MP David Mellor

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