On This Day: September 12th

Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.

Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua.

NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.

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

Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.

Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.

The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.