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North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.

On September 3, in the year 2017, North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake. This event is recorded as a Selected Events event in the history of September 3, one of 429 recorded events on this date across all of history.

North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test on 3 September 2017, claiming it had tested a thermonuclear weapon. While unconfirmed, analysts agree the test was likely of a thermonuclear or boosted fission weapon. The test took place at a high point of the 2017–2018 North Korea crisis.

Key Facts

  • This event took place on September 3, 2017 (AD era).
  • It is categorised as a Selected Events event in recorded history.
  • Referenced in 2 Wikipedia articles.
  • The event is associated with a specific geographical location (see map below).
  • Wikipedia source last updated on 26 July 2026.

On This Date in History 429

Type Year Date Event
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 3 Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish peer (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 3 Wayne Graham, American baseball player and coach (born 1936)
Notable Deaths 2024 Sep 3 Charley Johnson, American football player (born 1938)
Historical Events 2017 Sep 3 North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 3 Walter Becker, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (born 1950)
Notable Deaths 2017 Sep 3 John Ashbery, American poet (born 1927)
Historical Events 2016 Sep 3 The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris…
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 3 Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 3 Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 3 Carter Lay, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1971)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 3 Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (born 1914)
Notable Deaths 2015 Sep 3 Chandra Bahadur Dangi, world record holder for shortest man (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 3 Aarno Raninen, Finnish singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2014 Sep 3 A. P. Venkateswaran, Indian soldier and politician, 14th Foreign Secretary of India (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 3 Ralph M. Holman, American lawyer and judge (born 1914)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 3 Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, Mexican-American journalist (born 1921)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 3 José Ramón Larraz, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1929)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 3 Janet Lembke, American author and scholar (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 3 Don Meineke, American basketball player (born 1930)
Notable Deaths 2013 Sep 3 Lewis Morley, Hong Kong-Australian photographer (born 1925)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 3 Griselda Blanco, Colombian drug lord (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 3 Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and pilot (born 1933)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 3 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (born 1957)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 3 Siegfried Jamrowski, Russian-German soldier and pilot (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 3 Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader and businessman, founded the Unification Church (born 1920)
Notable Deaths 2012 Sep 3 Charlie Rose, American lawyer and politician (born 1939)
Historical Events 2010 Sep 3 After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold…
Notable Births 2010 Sep 3 Tanitoluwa Adewumi, Nigerian-American chess player
Notable Deaths 2010 Sep 3 Noah Howard, American saxophonist (born 1943)
Notable Deaths 2010 Sep 3 Robert Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1950)
Notable Deaths 2008 Sep 3 Donald Blakeslee, American colonel and pilot (born 1917)
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 3 Carter Albrecht, American keyboard player and guitarist (born 1973)
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 3 Syd Jackson, New Zealand trade union leader and activist (born 1939)
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 3 Jane Tomlinson, English runner (born 1964)
Notable Deaths 2007 Sep 3 Steve Fossett, American aviator (born 1944)
Notable Deaths 2005 Sep 3 R. S. R. Fitter, English biologist and author (born 1913)
Notable Deaths 2005 Sep 3 William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1924)
Historical Events 2004 Sep 3 Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children.
Notable Births 2003 Sep 3 Jack Dylan Grazer, American actor
Notable Deaths 2003 Sep 3 Alan Dugan, American soldier and poet (born 1923)
Notable Deaths 2003 Sep 3 Rudolf Leiding, German businessman (born 1914)
Notable Deaths 2002 Sep 3 Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (born 1919)
Notable Deaths 2002 Sep 3 W. Clement Stone, American businessman, philanthropist, and author (born 1902)
Historical Events 2001 Sep 3 In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls.
Notable Births 2001 Sep 3 Kaia Gerber, American model and actress
Notable Deaths 2001 Sep 3 Pauline Kael, American film critic and author (born 1919)
Selected Events 2001 Sep 3 The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of…
Notable Births 2000 Sep 3 Brandon Williams, English footballer
Notable Deaths 2000 Sep 3 Edward Anhalt, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Notable Births 1999 Sep 3 Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper and singer

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