2023: The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center.
2022: Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida’s costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.
2018: The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
2016: The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
2014: The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
2012: Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
2012: Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew.
2009: The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.
2008: Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.
2008: The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One’s inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso’s team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.
2006: Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years.
2000: Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
1995: Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
1994: The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
Famous Births 👶
2004: Isack Hadjar, French-Algerian racing driver
2000: Frankie Jonas, American actor, singer, and songwriter
1999: Kayla Day, American tennis player
1998: Panna Udvardy, Hungarian tennis player
1996: Aiden Moffat, British race car driver
1995: Juancho Hernangómez, Spanish basketball player
1995: Caleb Martin, American basketball player
1995: Cody Martin, American basketball player
1995: Jason Williams, English footballer
1993: Jodie Williams, English sprinter
1992: Khem Birch, Canadian basketball player
1992: Keir Gilchrist, Canadian actor and musician
1992: Alex Landi, American actor
1992: Paula Ormaechea, Argentine tennis player
1992: Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer
Notable Deaths 🕊️
2024: Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (born 1927)
2024: Drake Hogestyn, American actor (born 1953)
2024: Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1936)
2022: Coolio, American rapper (born 1963)
2019: José José, Mexican musician and singer (born 1948)
2018: Predrag Ejdus, Serbian actor (born 1947)
2017: Daniel Pe’er, Israeli television host and newsreader (born 1943)
2016: Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (born 1922)
2016: Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (born 1966)
2016: Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923)
2016: Gloria Naylor, American novelist (born 1950)
2015: Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (born 1921)
2015: Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (born 1925)
2015: Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (born 1939)
2014: Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (born 1923)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
Christian feast day:
Aaron of Auxerre
Christian feast day:
Annemund
Christian feast day:
Chariton the Confessor
Christian feast day:
Conval
Christian feast day:
Eustochium
Christian feast day:
Exuperius
Christian feast day:
Faustus of Riez
Christian feast day:
John of Dukla
Christian feast day:
Leoba
Christian feast day:
Lorenzo Ruiz
Christian feast day:
Paternus of Auch
Christian feast day:
Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton and Margery Kempe (Episcopal Church (USA))
Christian feast day:
Simón de Rojas
Christian feast day:
Wenceslas
Christian feast day:
September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
