Today in History
7 September
277 births · 143 deaths · 70 events recorded
Notable Births
All 277 ›
Ian Chen (actor)
b. 2006
American actor
Gracie Abrams
b. 1999
American singer (born 1999)
Laurie Jussaume
b. 1999
Canadian cyclist
Angela Gheorghiu
b. 1965
Romanian soprano (born 1965)
Darko Pančev
b. 1965
Macedonian footballer (born 1965)
John Friedrich (fraudster)
b. 1950
Australian conman (1950–1991)
Barry Siegel
b. 1949
American journalist
Yuan Longping
b. 1930
Chinese agronomist (1930–2021)
Notable Deaths
All 143 ›
Dan Morgenstern
d. 2024
American jazz historian (1929–2024)
Mac Miller
d. 2018
American rapper (1992–2018)
Dickie Moore (actor)
d. 2015
American actor (1925–2015)
Candida Royalle
d. 2015
American pornographic filmmaker (1950–2015)
Kwon Ri-se
d. 2014
South Korean-Japanese singer (1991–2014)
Raul M. Gonzalez
d. 2014
Filipino lawyer and politician
William Holman Hunt
d. 1910
Pre-Raphaelite English artist (1827–1910)
Peter Frederik Suhm
d. 1798
Danish historian (1728–1798)
On This Day in History
All 70 ›
2021
Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador.
Bitcoin
2021
The National Unity Government of Myanmar declares a people's defensive war against the military junta during the Myanmar civil war.
National Unity Government of Myanmar
2019
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
Oleh Sentsov
2017
The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people.
2017 Chiapas earthquake
2012
Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over nuclear plans and purported human rights abuses.
Canada–Iran relations
2011
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
2010
A Chinese fishing trawler collides with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands.
2010 Senkaku boat collision incident
2008
The United States government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac