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Today in History

  • 2012 Attacks on The US Diplomatic Compounds in Benghazi, Libya

    About 150 Islamic militants attacked two different US diplomatic buildings in the city with gunfire,

  • 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement begins

    The Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park in the Wall Street District of New York City

  • 2007 Russia Tests Father of All Bombs

    The world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb was a thermobaric bomb – it detonated mid-air and uses th

  • 2001 September 11 Attacks in the United States

    A series of 4 coordinated suicide attacks were carried out by the terrorist group Al Qaeda on the mo

  • 1998 Commonwealth Games Open in Kuala Lumpur

    The 16th Commonwealth Games were held for the first time in an Asian country that did not have the B

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Births On This Day,
September, 11

  • 1977 Ludacris

    American rapper, producer, actor, founded Disturbing tha Peace Records

  • 1965 Moby

    American singer-songwriter, DJ

  • 1965 Bashar al-Assad

    Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria

  • 1924 Rudolf Vrba

    Czech/Canadian holocaust survivor, educator

  • 1885 D. H. Lawrence

    English novelist

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Deaths On This Day,
September, 11

  • 1987 Peter Tosh

    Jamaican singer-songwriter, guitarist

  • 1973 Salvador Allende

    Chilean physician, politician

  • 1971 Nikita Khrushchev

    Soviet politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union

  • 1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah

    Indian/Pakistani lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan

  • 1941 Christian Rakovsky

    Bulgarian revolutionary, politician