r/ThisDayInHistory

21 September 2001 17 year old Ross Parker is killed by a gang of Pakistani men who said they were "looking for a white boy to kill" in retaliation for anger over 9/11

5 September 1972. 11 members of Israel’s Olympic delegation were taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists at Munich. All 11 were killed when a German rescue attempt went catastrophically wrong. Yet after just 34 hours, the Olympic Games resumed.

30 September 2005. A Danish newspaper published 12 cartoons of Muhammad. Within days, the controversy had become an international crisis.

11 September 2001. This photograph of the Twin Towers was taken at about 8.30am, just 16 minutes before the North Tower was struck. The photographer had no idea he was recording the towers for the last time.

28 September 1994. The ferry Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 of the 989 people aboard. The first Mayday call came at 1:22am; 28 minutes later, the ship had disappeared from radar.

8 September 1504. Michelangelo unveiled David in Florence, a 17-foot masterpiece carved from a single block of marble that had been rejected by other sculptors as flawed.

September 23 1821, the Tripolitsa Massacre occured. Overall, thousands of Jews, Islamized Greeks, Turks, Albanians and Romanis were killed.

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1995 Sep 4 - The 1995 Okinawa rape incident involved the abduction and gang rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen.

6 September 1997. An estimated 2.5 billion people watched Princess Diana's funeral, the largest TV audience ever recorded for a live broadcast. William was 15 and Harry just 12 when they walked behind their mother's coffin through London.