September 12·Every year

Rosh Hashanah

The Jewish New Year — the start of the High Holy Days. Apples dipped in honey, the blowing of the shofar, and ten days of reflection leading up to Yom Kippur. Date is the first day of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar.

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Notable · 2015

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.