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Events

• 1923 (103 years ago) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
• 1926 (100 years ago) Yleisradio (YLE), the Finnish national public broadcasting company, begins its broadcasts.
• 1954 (72 years ago) The 6.7 Mw Chlef earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 1,243 people were killed and 5,000 were injured.
• 1993 (33 years ago) Israeli–Palestinian peace process: The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
• 2001 (25 years ago) Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
• 2016 (10 years ago) The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".
• 2025 (a year ago) Several Russian drones incur on Polish airspace and are subsequently shot down, marking the first time a NATO member has engaged Russian military assets.
• 2025 (a year ago) Six people are killed when Israel carries out an airstrike on Doha in a failed attempt to decapitate the Hamas leadership.

Births

• 1585 (441 years ago) Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (died 1642)
• 1828 (198 years ago) Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (died 1910)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (died 2011)
• 1949 (77 years ago) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian general and politician, 6th President of Indonesia
• 1960 (66 years ago) Hugh Grant, English actor and producer
• 1966 (60 years ago) Adam Sandler, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 (59 years ago) Akshay Kumar, Indian actor and producer
• 1985 (41 years ago) Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer

Deaths

• 1087 (939 years ago) William the Conqueror, English king (born c. 1028)
• 1569 (457 years ago) Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dutch painter (born 1525)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (born 1842)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (born 1864)
• 1976 (50 years ago) Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1893)
• 1981 (45 years ago) Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (born 1901)
• 2001 (25 years ago) Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (born 1953)
• 2003 (23 years ago) Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (born 1908)

All 423 events, births and deaths of September 9