Events in History
Election of Interest
Sep 14 Elizabeth Warren announces she intends to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2012 Massachusetts Senatorial election
- Sep 15 Ford Motor Company closes St. Thomas Assembly automobile plant in Southwold, Ontario, after 44 years resulting in the loss of roughly 1,400 jobs
- Sep 17 Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics begins in Zucotti Park, New York City
- Sep 20 The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
Deaths in History
- Sep 2 Roberto Bruce, Chilean journalist (b. 1979)
- Sep 11 Anjali Gupta, Indian Air Force officer (b. 1975)
- Sep 12 Frits Castricum, Dutch journalist and politician (PvdA), dies at 64
- Sep 13 Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)
- Sep 17 Colin Madigan, Australian architect (National Gallery of Australia), dies at 90
- Sep 19 Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
- Sep 20 Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. (b. 1940)
- Sep 21 Jun Henmi, Japanese writer and poet (b. 1939)
- Sep 21 Pamela Ann Rymer, American federal appellate judge (b. 1941)
- Sep 21 Troy Anthony Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (executed) (b. 1968)
- Sep 23 Stuart J. Byrne, American sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man), dies at 97
- Sep 25 Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician and leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), dies at 78
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
Sep 25 Kenyan environmentalist and political activist, founder of the Green Belt Movement, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006), dies from ovarian cancer at 71
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