Events in History
Event of Interest
Sep 1 President Trump visits the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake was shot, to offer support to law enforcement
- Sep 1 Rare protests in Mongolia against moves to teach school subjects in Mandarin instead of Mongolian
- Sep 2 Australia officially enters recession for the first time in almost 3 decades with GDP falling 7% (April-June)
- Sep 2 British architect Richard Rogers designer of the Pompidou Centre and the Millennial Dome retires
COVID-19 Pandemic
Sep 2 Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for COVID-19 and is later hospitalized
- Sep 2 Press conference with body camera evidence brings to light death of African American Daniel Prude after being retrained by police back in March
Event of Interest
Sep 3 MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, becomes world's richest woman worth $68 billion
- Sep 3 More healthcare workers have died of COVID-19 in Mexico than any other country - 1320 deaths vs 1077 (US) and 649 (UK) according to Amnesty International [1]
- Sep 4 Record 52% of American 18-29-year-olds are living with their parents because of the pandemic according to Pew Research Center study [1]
- Sep 5 More than 50 arrested as Portland, Oregon, marks 100 days of protests against racism and police brutality
Election of Interest
Sep 6 100,000 people demonstrate in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, amid month-long protests against his re-election
- Sep 6 First chord change in 19 years in John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" composition, being played for 639 years, in Halberstadt, Germany
- Sep 6 Los Angeles County reported its highest-ever temperature of 121F (49.4C)
- Sep 6 Premier Daniel Andrews announces roadmap out of restrictions for the Australian state of Victoria, but extends lockdown till September 28
- Sep 6 Strain of Bacteria nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium' survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space
- Sep 7 India overtakes Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million
- Sep 7 Wildfires have burnt a record 2 million acres in California 2020 fire season, more than the state of Delaware according to Cal Fire
- Sep 8 Moria refugee camp, Europe's biggest migrant camp burns down on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving 13,000 without shelter
- Sep 8 Two ex-Myanmar soldiers testify they were ordered to rape and kill Muslim Rohingya villagers, 1st public confession of army-directed crimes against Rohingya [1]
- Sep 9 Donald Trump purposely downplayed the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward's new book "Rage"
- Sep 9 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 900,000 with the US the most deaths at 190,589
- Sep 9 San Francisco Bay area blanketed by dark orange skies and smoke due to California wildfires
- Sep 10 Austrian British researcher Martin Hairer wins Breakthrough prize for mathematics worth $3 million for work on stochastic analysis
- Sep 10 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
- Sep 10 Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,000 people to evacuate, 10% of the population with unprecedented 900,000 acres burnt
- Sep 14 Astronomers report possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in planets's atmosphere by telescope [1]
- Sep 14 Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks
- Sep 14 Jakarta, Indonesia's biggest city of 10 million, imposes widespread restrictions again, amid warnings the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse
- Sep 14 WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417
Event of Interest
Sep 15 Family of Breonna Taylor announce $12 million wrongful death settlement with city of Louisville, Kentucky, after her death in botched police raid March 13
Event of Interest
Sep 16 Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Mottley announces the country's intention to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic
- Sep 16 Hurricane Sally makes landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a category 2 storm bringing serious flooding
Appointment of Interest
Sep 16 Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Prime Minister by the Japanese government after Shinzo Abe stood down due to ill health
- Sep 17 More than 15,000 fires have caused widespread devastation in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020, according to its National Institute for Space Research
- Sep 18 Cyclone Ianos, a rare 'medicane' begins sweeping across Greece, killing three
- Sep 18 Earliest dated evidence for the human species in the Arabian Peninsula as fossilized footprints 120,000 years old uncovered in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert [1]
- Sep 19 US President Donald Trump vows to swear in a new Supreme Court judge, despite the election being only 45 days away
- Sep 20 FinCEN files leaked - over 2,000 mostly 'suspicious activity reports' to the US government showing banks allowed money laundering worth $2 trillion between 2000-17
- Sep 21 Canadian province of Quebec expands restrictions, declaring it is in a second COVID-19 wave as cases across the country average 1,000 a day
Event of Interest
Sep 21 WHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus says countries representing 2/3 of the world's population have joined its COVAX vaccine-distribution initiative to deliver 2 billion doses by end 2021
- Sep 22 America's COVID-19 death toll passes 200,000, more than any other country
Event of Interest
Sep 22 PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a 'perilous turning point' in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions
Event of Interest
Sep 22 President Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060
- Sep 23 Alexander Lukashenko sworn in for sixth term as President of Belarus in a secret ceremony, amid continued widespread protests against his re-election
- Sep 23 Kentucky grand jury indicts only one of three officers for wanton engagement for shooting unarmed Breonna Taylor in Louisville
- Sep 23 President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference
- Sep 24 Report China is continuing to expand its Uighur detention centers, with more than 380 suspected facilities housing 1 million people in Xinjiang [1]
- Sep 25 18 people in a government convoy killed by Islamist militants in Borno State, Nigeria
Event of Interest
Sep 25 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C.
- Sep 25 Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, is the first rat to be awarded a prestigious PDSA hero award, for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia
- Sep 25 Singapore announces it will be the first country in the world to use facial verification as part of its national identity scheme
- Sep 26 108 pilot whales survive, while 350 die in Australia's largest mass stranding at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
- Sep 26 President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Sep 27 Border fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan forces over disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh kills at least 23
- Sep 27 Details of President Donald Trump's tax returns released by the New York Times showing he paid $750 in income tax (2016 & 2017) revealing "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance" [1]
- Sep 27 Houston officials confirm water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, contaminated with brain-eating amoeba after death of six-year-old boy
- Sep 28 COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
- Sep 29 First debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden held, widely criticized as chaotic and ill-tempered
- Sep 29 Scientists confirm the existence of three new underground lakes on Mars using radar on Esa's Mars Express spacecraft
- Sep 30 California becomes the 1st US state to pass a law allowing for reparations for black residents and descendants of slaves
- Sep 30 Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases
Deaths in History
- Sep 1 Jerzy Szczakiel, Polish speedway rider (World Individual C'ship 1973; World Pairs C'ship 1971), dies at 71
- Sep 2 Khang Khek Leu 'Comrade Dutch', Cambodian Khmer Rouge figure convicted of crimes against humanity, dies at 77
- Sep 6 Mike Sexton, American poker player (World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2006; Poker Hall of Fame) and commentator (WPT), dies from prostate cancer at 72
- Sep 9 Shere Hite [Shirley Diana Gregory], American-German sex therapist (The Hite Report), dies at 77 [1]
- Sep 12 Terence Conran, English designer and restaurateur (Habitat), dies at 88
- Sep 15 Moussa Traoré, Mali soldier, politician and dictator, President of Mali (1968-91), dies at 83
- Sep 17 Terry Goodkind, American epic fantasy novelist (The Sword of Truth), dies at 72
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
Sep 18 American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1993-2020), dies of pancreatic cancer at 87
John Turner (1929-2020)
Sep 19 Canadian politician,17th Prime Minister of Canada (1984), dies at 91
- Sep 21 Robert Freeman Smith, American politician (Rep-R-Oregon), dies at 89
- Sep 29 19-year-old Indian Dalit rape victim dies two weeks after being gang raped by upper-caste men in Hathras district, ignites widespread protest
- Sep 29 Aster Berkhof [Louis Van de Bergh], Flemish writer (Furious Christ), dies at 100
- Sep 29 Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 5th Emir of Kuwait (2006-2020), Commander of the Kuwait Military Forces, dies at 91
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