EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
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TODAY IN HISTORY
September 11
Friday, September 11, 2026
Day 253 of 2026 | Week 37 | 106 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane.
The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing thousands of people.
A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
A dedication ceremony is held at the United States National September 11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the memorial opens to family members.
A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
American baseball player
American singer-songwriter (Letters to Cleo)
Kazakhstani ice hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan 1998
American film writer and director
Luxembourgian soccer midfielder (34 caps; Jeunesse Esch FC) and manager (Differdange 03
American financial broadcast journalist
born in Mission
American NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
Scottish racing cyclist (World Hour Record 1993
British BBC journalist (shot and killed reporting in Croatia)
American entertainment producer and wrestling manager
American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1990
American NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
American Grammy Award-winning jazz-fusion
tennis player (French Juniors 1981)
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