Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 11 throughout history.
Progress MS-32, Russian production No. 462, identified by NASA as Progress 93, was a Progress cargo spacecraft launched by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (I…
Progress MS-32 is launched to resupply the International Space Station. It is the 300th spacecraft launched to the ISS.
Hurricane Francine was a moderately strong tropical cyclone that brought extensive flooding to parts of the Gulf of Mexico coast, especially Louisiana in September 2024. The sixth…
Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane.
Soyuz MS-26, Russian production No. 757 and identified by NASA as Soyuz 72S, was a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight launched from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 11 Septem…
Soyuz MS-26 is launched to the International Space Station, setting a record of 19 people in orbit at the same time.
Derna is a port city in eastern Libya. With a population of around 90,000, Derna was once the seat of one of the wealthiest provinces among the Barbary States. The city is now the…
The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing…
A crawler crane collapsed over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, around 5:10 p.m. on 11 September 2015, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others. The city was preparin…
A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
Factories in Pakistan's two largest cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire on 11 September 2012. The fires occurred in a textile factory in the western part of Karachi and in a …
A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
Benghazi is the second-largest city in Libya as well as the largest city in Cyrenaica, with an estimated population of 859,000 in 2023. Located on the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediter…
The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is a memorial and museum that are part of the World Trade Center complex, in New York City, created for remembering the September 11, 2…
A dedication ceremony is held at the United States National September 11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the…
On 11 September 2008, a France-bound Eurotunnel Shuttle train carrying heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and their drivers caught fire while travelling through the Channel Tunnel. The f…
A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six…
Conventional weapons or conventional arms are weapons whose damaging impact comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy. They stand in contrast to weapons of mass destruct…
Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim worl…
Nineteen members of al-Qaeda execute the September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that killed…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as resear…
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
The Kurkse tragedy occurred on 11 September 1997, when 14 Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion drowned in the Kurkse Strait during a dangerous training maneuver. The Kurkse t…
Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training…
The Scottish devolution referendum of 1997 was a pre-legislative referendum held in Scotland on 11 September 1997 over whether there was support for the creation of a Scottish Par…
After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
The Classical World Chess Championship 1995, known at the time as the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, was held from September 10, 1995, to October 16, 1995, on the 107th floor …
The first game of the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, pitting incumbent champion Garry Kasparov against challenger…
Hurricane Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike Hawaii in recorded history, and the only hurricane to directly affect the state during the 1992 Pacific hurricane season.…
Hurricane Iniki strikes the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaii, killing 7 and causing $3.1bn in economic damages.
Continental Express Flight 2574 was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas to Houston Intercont…
Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three…
Compañía de Aviación Faucett, colloquially known simply as Faucett Perú or Faucett, was a Peruvian airline. Its headquarters were located on the premises of Jorge Chávez Internati…
A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 …
Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West…
The Moimenta-Alcafache train crash occurred on 11 September 1985 in Mangualde, Portugal, in the Portuguese Linha da Beira Alta. It killed about 150 people, making it the worst rai…
Moimenta-Alcafache train crash, the worst railway accident to occur in Portugal.