September 12·Every year

National Video Games Day

Separate from July's National Video Game Day, September 12th is the more widely observed US version. The video game industry generates over $184 billion globally — more than film and music combined. The average American gamer is 31 years old and has been playing for 13 years. The lone-teenager stereotype expired decades ago.

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An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.

2021Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
2014Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua.
2013NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.