0 Holidays September 10

World Suicide Prevention Day

Name: World Suicide Prevention Day
Start: 2000-09-10
End: 2000-09-10
Location: Histories Today Editorial Team

On September 10, in the year 0, World Suicide Prevention Day. This event is recorded as a Holidays event in the history of September 10, one of 439 recorded events on this date across all of history.

World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) is an awareness day always observed on 10 September every year, in order to provide worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides, with various activities around the world since 2003. The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) to host World Suicide Prevention Day. In 2011 an estimated 40 countries held awareness events to mark the occasion. According to WHO's Mental Health Atlas released in 2014, no low-income country reported having a national suicide prevention strategy, while less than 10% of lower-middle income countries, and almost a third of upper-middle and high-income countries had.

Key Facts

This event took place on September 10, 0 (AD era).
It is categorised as a Holidays event in recorded history.
Referenced in 1 Wikipedia article.
Wikipedia source last updated on 5 February 2026.

On This Date in History 439

Type	Year	Date	Event
Historical Events	2025	Sep 10	American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem,…
Selected Events	2025	Sep 10	American political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at an event at Utah Valley University.
Selected Events	2025	Sep 10	American political activist Charlie Kirk (pictured) was shot and killed at an event at Utah Valley University.
Historical Events	2024	Sep 10	Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center…
Notable Deaths	2024	Sep 10	Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (born 1946)
Notable Deaths	2024	Sep 10	Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (born 1936)
Notable Deaths	2023	Sep 10	Ian Wilmut, British embryologist (born 1944)
Notable Deaths	2020	Sep 10	Diana Rigg, British actress (born 1938)
Historical Events	2017	Sep 10	Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the…
Notable Deaths	2015	Sep 10	Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (born 1918)
Notable Deaths	2015	Sep 10	Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (born 1928)
Notable Deaths	2015	Sep 10	Antoine Lahad, Lebanese general (born 1927)
Notable Deaths	2014	Sep 10	Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	2014	Sep 10	Richard Kiel, American actor (born 1939)
Notable Deaths	2014	Sep 10	Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (born 1932)
Notable Deaths	2014	Sep 10	George Spencer, American baseball player (born 1926)
Notable Deaths	2014	Sep 10	Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader and academic (born 1944)
Notable Deaths	2013	Sep 10	John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (born 1940)
Notable Deaths	2013	Sep 10	Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1925)
Notable Deaths	2013	Sep 10	Josef Němec, Czech boxer (born 1933)
Notable Deaths	2013	Sep 10	Clay Shaw, American accountant and politician (born 1939)
Notable Deaths	2013	Sep 10	Jack Vance, Canadian general (born 1933)
Notable Deaths	2012	Sep 10	Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (born 1934)
Notable Deaths	2012	Sep 10	Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1938)
Notable Deaths	2012	Sep 10	Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (born 1935)
Notable Deaths	2012	Sep 10	Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1933)
Notable Deaths	2012	Sep 10	John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (born 1922)
Notable Deaths	2011	Sep 10	Cliff Robertson, American actor (born 1923)
Historical Events	2008	Sep 10	The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva,…
Notable Deaths	2008	Sep 10	Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1929)
Notable Deaths	2008	Sep 10	Vernon Handley, English conductor (born 1930)
Historical Events	2007	Sep 10	Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military…
Notable Deaths	2007	Sep 10	Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (born 1942)
Notable Deaths	2007	Sep 10	Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (born 1930)
Notable Deaths	2007	Sep 10	Ted Stepien, American businessman (born 1925)
Notable Deaths	2007	Sep 10	Jane Wyman, American actress (born 1917)
Notable Deaths	2006	Sep 10	Patty Berg, American golfer (born 1918)
Notable Deaths	2006	Sep 10	Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (born 1918)
Notable Deaths	2005	Sep 10	Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (born 1919)
Notable Deaths	2005	Sep 10	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (born 1924)
Notable Births	2004	Sep 10	Gabriel Bateman, American actor[citation needed]
Notable Deaths	2004	Sep 10	Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (born 1927)
Historical Events	2002	Sep 10	Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
Historical Events	2001	Sep 10	Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
Historical Events	2001	Sep 10	During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches…
Notable Births	2001	Sep 10	Armando Broja, Albanian-born English footballer
Notable Births	2001	Sep 10	Nick Cross, American football player
Historical Events	2000	Sep 10	Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of…
Notable Deaths	2000	Sep 10	Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (born 1921)
Selected Events	2000	Sep 10	British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys,…