Historical Events
- Sep 1 Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
- Sep 1 Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
- Sep 1 Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district
- Sep 1 US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan
- Sep 2 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
- Sep 2 A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
- Sep 3 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
- Sep 3 New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
- Sep 3 Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
- Sep 4 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
- Sep 4 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco
- Sep 4 Carpet that can help prevent falls among the elderly by warning them of unusual footsteps is developed
- Sep 4 Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
- Sep 5 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey
- Sep 5 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
- Sep 5 Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week
Video Music Awards
Sep 6 29th MTV Video Music Awards: Rihanna f/ Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj & Chris Brown win
- Sep 6 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
Presidential Convention
Sep 6 Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President
- Sep 7 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China
- Sep 7 Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada
- Sep 7 US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
- Sep 8 6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Sep 8 8 people are killed after a tractor is hit by a train in Romania
- Sep 9 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
- Sep 9 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
- Sep 9 Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 9 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins her 4th US title; beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
- Sep 10 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
- Sep 10 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
- Sep 10 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
- Sep 10 A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children
- Sep 10 Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 10 US Open Men's Tennis: Andy Murray of Scotland wins his first Grand Slam event; beats defending champion Novak Đoković 7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2
- Sep 11 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
- Sep 11 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
- Sep 11 Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
- Sep 11 The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador
- Sep 11 The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan
- Sep 12 18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria
- Sep 12 314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
- Sep 12 Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Excavators announce that they may have found the remains of King Richard III of England under a carpark in Leicester
- Sep 13 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
- Sep 13 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
- Sep 13 Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya
Event of Interest
Sep 13 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
- Sep 14 Ferry sinks amid 10 foot waves off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, killing 21 people
- Sep 15 Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s
- Sep 16 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
- Sep 16 37th Toronto International Film Festival: "Silver Linings Playbook" directed by David O. Russell wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 16 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
- Sep 16 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey
- Sep 16 Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
Women's British Open
Sep 16 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Jiyai Shin wins her second Open title, 9 strokes ahead of fellow South Korean Inbee Park
- Sep 16 Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
- Sep 16 NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
- Sep 17 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
- Sep 17 China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
- Sep 17 Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn condom
- Sep 17 United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defense system in Japan
- Sep 18 10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
- Sep 18 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
- Sep 18 The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
- Sep 18 World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
- Sep 19 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
- Sep 20 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bombing in Somalia
- Sep 20 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
- Sep 20 AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing
- Sep 21 Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wins a leadership ballot
- Sep 22 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow
Farm Aid Concert
Sep 22 Farm Aid held in Hershey, Pennsylvania; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Kenny Chesney, Jack Johnson, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Dale Watson, and Pegi Young [1]
- Sep 23 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York
Emmy Awards
Sep 23 64th Emmy Awards: "Homeland", "Modern Family", Damian Lewis & Claire Danes win
- Sep 23 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
- Sep 23 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
- Sep 24 Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
- Sep 25 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
- Sep 25 Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
- Sep 26 Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
- Sep 26 Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
- Sep 26 Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
- Sep 27 The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
- Sep 27 The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
- Sep 27 UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands
- Sep 28 Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
- Sep 28 Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
- Sep 30 Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq
- Sep 30 Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final
- Sep 30 Ryder Cup Golf, Medinah CC: Europe retains Cup 14½-13½; win 8 and tie 1 of the 12 singles matches after trailing 10-6
- Sep 30 Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
Famous Weddings
Cobie Smulders & Taran Killam
Sep 8 "How I Met Your Mother" actress Cobie Smulders (30) weds "Saturday Night Live" actor Taran Killam (30) at the Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in Solvang, California
Ryan Reynolds
Sep 9 "Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively (25) weds "Green Lantern" actor Ryan Reynolds (35) at Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Sep 15 "The Black Keys" drummer Patrick Carney (32) weds Emily Ward in Nashville, Tennessee
Annie Lennox
Sep 15 British "Eurythmics" singer Annie Lennox (57) weds Harvard-educated gynecologist Mitch Besser (57) on a private boat on the Thames River in London
- Sep 20 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's daughter Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah (32) weds Pengiran Haji Muhammad Ruzaini (29) at the Throne Hall of Istana Nurul Iman palace in Brunei
- Sep 23 Italian-American actor Antonio Sabato Jr. (40) weds second wife, American singer and television personality Cheryl Moana Marie (41) at a private Anini Beach estate on the island of Kauai, Hawaii; separate in 2016, divorce in 2018
- Sep 24 "Sugar Ray" singer Mark McGrath (44) weds longtime love Carin Kingsland (39) at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California
Patrick Stump
Sep 29 "Fall Out Boy" lead singer Patrick Stump (28) weds longtime girlfriend Elisa Yao in Chicago
- Sep 29 "Kings of Leon" bassist Jared Followill (25) weds model Martha Patterson (21) in Charlotte, Tennessee
Stanley Tucci
Sep 29 "The Lovely Bones" actor Stanley Tucci (52) formally weds British literary agent Felicity Blunt at Middle Temple Hall in London
Anne Hathaway
Sep 29 Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway (29) weds actor-turned-jewelry designer Adam Shulman (31) in Big Sur, California
Holly Valance
Sep 29 Actress Holly Valance (29) weds property developer Nick Candy (39) in Beverly Hills, California
Famous Deaths
- Sep 1 George Jefferson, English engineer who oversaw privatisation of British Telecom, dies at 91 [1]
- Sep 1 Hal David, American lyricist ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "What The World Needs Now Is Love"; "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"), dies at 91
- Sep 1 Sat Mahajan, Indian politician (Rural Development Minister), dies at 85
- Sep 1 Smarck Michel, Haitian Prime Minister (1994-95), dies from a brain tumour
- Sep 2 Emanuel Nunes, Portuguese composer, dies at 71
- Sep 2 Mark Abrahamian, American rock guitarist (Starship, 2000-12), dies of a heart attack after a concert at 46
- Sep 3 Charles Rose, American politician (Rep-D-North Carolina, 1973-97), dies at 73
- Sep 3 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (The Green Mile), dies from respiratory failure at 54
Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012)
Sep 3 South Korean evangelist (Unification Church), dies at 92
Art Modell (1925-2012)
Sep 6 American businessman (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores), dies from heart failure at 87 (b. 1925)
- Sep 6 Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), dies from cancer at 71
- Sep 7 Dorothy "Dottie" McGuire, American pop vocalist (McGuire Sisters - "Sincerely"; "Sugartime"), dies at 84
- Sep 8 Bill Moggridge [William], British designer (IDEO), dies from cancer at 69
- Sep 9 Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
- Sep 9 Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer (billion-litre idea), dies from kidney failure at 90
- Sep 10 Lance LeGault, American actor (The A-Team - "Col. Decker"), dies of heart failure at 77
- Sep 10 Steven Springer, American guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 60
- Sep 11 Sergio Livingstone, Chilean soccer goalkeeper who played 52 internationals; CD Universidad Católica; and television personality Televisión Nacional de Chile, dies at 92
- Sep 13 Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Alberta), dies at 84
- Sep 13 William Duckworth, American composer (Time Curve Preludes), teacher (Bucknell, 1973-2011), and internet pioneer (PitchWeb), dies of pancreatic cancer at 69
- Sep 14 Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet (Good News of Death), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 89
- Sep 15 George Hurst, British conductor (BBC Northern Orchestra. 1958-68; Bournemouth Sinfonietta. 1968-74), and educator, dies at 86
- Sep 16 John Ingle, American actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), dies from cancer at 84
- Sep 16 Ragnhild Alexandra [Princess Ragnhild, Mrs Lorentzen], Norwegian princess, dies of cancer at 82
- Sep 17 Russell E. Train, American environmentalist and administrator (EPA, WWF), dies at 92
- Sep 18 Jack Kralick, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1964; no hitter 1962; Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians), dies from complications of strokes at 77
Steve Sabol (1942-2012)
Sep 18 American filmmaker (35 Emmy awards - NFL Films), dies from brain cancer at 69
- Sep 23 Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46
- Sep 23 Karl Michael Komma, German composer and music publicist, dies at 98
Andy Williams (1927-2012)
Sep 25 American pop singer ("Moon River"; "Days of Wine and Roses"), dies from bladder cancer at 84
- Sep 26 Johnny Lewis, American actor, dies from injuries from a fall at 28
- Sep 27 Eddie Bert, American bebop jazz trombonist, dies at 90
- Sep 27 Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor (Pink Panther, Dorian Gray), dies at 95
- Sep 27 R. B. Greaves, American singer, dies from prostate cancer at 68
- Sep 30 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, World champion 1947-48), dies at 84
- Sep 30 Barry Commoner, American biologist and politician (his work on radioactive fallout led to 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty), dies at 95
- Sep 30 César Bolaños, Peruvian electro-acoustic and experimental musician and composer, dies at 81
- Sep 30 Turhan Bey [Sahultavy], Austrian-born actor dubbed "The Turkish Delight" (Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), dies from Parkinson's disease at 90
