On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
The Mets ended the day having lost only a half-game in the standings. They lead second-place Philadelphia by two and a half games with 15 remaining.
There were reports of as many as four people killed, but it could take days to search flooded homes to assess the extent of the impact of Hurricane Ike.
The Trojans established themselves as the best team in the country and the favorite to win the national title.
A victim of cutbacks, the program that enlisted volunteers to clean up New Jersey highways has been shuttered.
For most of a century, running as a Democrat in Nassau County, N.Y., was an uphill battle. No more.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2008, covering September 14, 2008.
Slipknot
The Game
Kid Rock
Jonas Brothers
Soundtrack
2008Hyman Golden, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1923)[†]
Hyman Golden was one of the co-founders of the Snapple Beverage Corporation and was the company's chairman when the firm's juice drinks and teas attained national attention in the late 1980s.
2008Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.[†]
Aeroflot-Nord Flight 821 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aeroflot-Nord in a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary. On 14 September 2008, the aircraft operating the flight crashed on approach to Perm International Airport at 5:10 local time (UTC+06). All 82 passengers and six crew members were killed. Among the passengers who were killed was Russian Colonel General Gennady Troshev, an adviser to the President of Russia who had been the commander of the North Caucasus Military District during the Second Chechen War. A section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was damaged by the crash. Flight 821 is the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737-500, surpassing the 1993 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 733, and was the second-deadliest aviation accident of 2008, behind Spanair Flight 5022.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]