Oxfam launches Second Hand September 2026 and its first State of Style report
Oxfam GB published its first State of Style report on 1 September 2026, alongside the Second Hand September ca...
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Nuno Bettencourt, Extreme’s guitarist, turns 60
Nuno Bettencourt was born on 20 September 1966 in Praia da Vitória, on Terceira in the Azores. The family move...
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172 years since the Battle of the Alma, the Crimean War’s first major land clash
On 20 September 1854, on the heights south of the River Alma, British, French and Ottoman armies drove back Ru...
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53 years since Billie Jean King won the Battle of the Sexes
On 20 September 1973, at the Houston Astrodome, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in three sets: 6–4, 6–3, 6–3...
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156 years since the breach of Porta Pia and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy
On 20 September 1870 artillery of the Kingdom of Italy opened a breach in the Aurelian Walls near Porta Pia. B...
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243 years since the Montgolfier brothers’ demonstration flight with a sheep, a duck and a rooster
On 19 September 1783, in the forecourt of the Palace of Versailles, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolf...
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163 years since the Battle of Chickamauga began, one of the American Civil War’s fiercest clashes
On 19–20 September 1863, in the woods by Chickamauga Creek in north-western Georgia, the Army of the Cumberlan...
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53 years since Carl XVI Gustaf publicly assumed his role as King of Sweden
Carl Gustaf became King of Sweden on 15 September 1973, after the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf. H...
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180 years since the reported Marian apparition at La Salette
On 19 September 1846, in the mountain pastures above the village of La Salette-Fallavaux in the French Alps, t...
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16 years since the Macondo well was declared “effectively dead” after the Deepwater Horizon disaster
On 19 September 2010, Admiral Thad Allen, the federal response coordinator, announced that the Macondo 252 wel...
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230 years since the publication of George Washington’s Farewell Address
On 19 September 1796, George Washington’s farewell message appeared in David C. Claypoole’s Philadelphia newsp...
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41 years since the earthquake that devastated Mexico City in 1985
On the morning of 19 September 1985, an earthquake with its epicentre near the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilo...
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Jada Pinkett Smith turns 55: a career from “A Different World” to “The Matrix”
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith was born in Baltimore on 18 September 1971. At 55, her public record remains that of...
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Solidigm Considers Building NAND Memory Factory in the United States
Solidigm, the US subsidiary of SK Hynix, is considering a NAND flash memory factory in the United States. Sour...
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UK Temporarily Blocks Export of £4.6 Million Renaissance Sculpture
The UK government has temporarily deferred the export licence for the bronze statuette “Seated Nymph”, attribu...
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Xenon Pauses New Enrolment in Trials of Experimental Depression Drug
Xenon Pharmaceuticals has temporarily paused enrolment of new patients in Phase III trials of azetukalner for...
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Why Is a Rainbow Shaped Like an Arc?
A rainbow is not an object hanging in the sky. It appears when sunlight meets many water droplets, with the ob...
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UK Invests £22.5 Million in Activities for Pupils in Disadvantaged Communities
The UK government announced on Friday a £22.5 million investment to expand enrichment activities in more than...
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5 years since Inspiration4 returned from the first all-civilian orbital mission
18 September 2026 marks five years since the Inspiration4 splashdown. The Crew Dragon Resilience capsule retur...
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153 years since the collapse of Jay Cooke & Company triggered the Panic of 1873
18 September 2026 marks 153 years since Jay Cooke & Company suspended payments. Federal Reserve History ties t...
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Why Do Bridges Have Expansion Joints?
The short noise at the end of a bridge is often an expansion joint. It looks like a break in the asphalt, but...
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317 years since the birth of Samuel Johnson, author of the great English dictionary
18 September 2026 marks 317 years since the birth of Samuel Johnson in Lichfield, England. Encyclopaedia Brita...
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Nestlé Weighs Options After Russia Places Its Local Operations Under Temporary Administration
Nestlé is reviewing its options after a Kremlin decree placed the Russian business under temporary external ad...
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NATS Identifies Software Defect as Cause of UK Air Traffic Control Outage
NATS, the UK’s air-traffic-control operator, said on Friday that last week’s outage was a software defect in p...
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131 years since Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition address
18 September 2026 marks 131 years since Booker T. Washington spoke at the Cotton States and International Expo...
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EU Finance Ministers Discuss Taxing Windfall Energy Profits
EU finance ministers put a tax on energy companies’ windfall profits on the Dublin table on 18 September. The...
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156 years since the Old Faithful geyser received its name
18 September 2026 marks 156 years since members of the Washburn–Langford–Doane expedition named Old Faithful,...
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Britain Seeks Inclusion in the EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ Industrial Policy
John Healey, chancellor of the Exchequer, is going to the EU finance ministers’ meeting in Dublin with a preci...
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Why Do Cats Purr—and Why It Does Not Always Mean Happiness
The sofa purr is often, correctly, read as contentment. Cats also purr when frightened, hurt, ill or asking fo...
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Why Do Onions Make Us Cry?
A whole onion does not start tears. The blade ruptures cells and mixes substances that had been kept in separa...
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56 years since the death of Jimi Hendrix, the guitarist who reshaped rock sound
Jimi Hendrix died in London on 18 September 1970, aged 27. Born in Seattle in 1942 as Johnny Allen Hendrix and...
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Cleveland Guardians take AL Central lead after beating Chicago White Sox
The Cleveland Guardians moved into first place in the AL Central after a 6–3 win over the Chicago White Sox on...
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