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September 12, 2008

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2008, covering September 12, 2008.

  1. 1
    Album cover for All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot

    All Hope Is Gone

    Slipknot

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for LAX by The Game

    LAX

    The Game

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
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    Album cover for Rock N Roll Jesus by Kid Rock

    Rock N Roll Jesus

    Kid Rock

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    47
  4. 4
    Album cover for A Little Bit Longer by Jonas Brothers

    A Little Bit Longer

    Jonas Brothers

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
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    3
  5. 5
    Album cover for Mamma Mia! by Soundtrack

    Mamma Mia!

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8

Notable Deaths

Bob Quinn (Australian footballer)

2008Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)[†]

Robert Berrima Quinn MM was a champion Australian rules footballer with the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and a decorated soldier of the Second World War.

David Foster Wallace

2008David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)[†]

David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years".

Historical Events

2008 Chatsworth train collision

2008The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.[†]

The 2008 Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22:23 p.m. PDT on September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific Railroad freight train and a Metrolink commuter rail passenger train collided head-on in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

Historical Context for September 12, 2008

In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]