6th » Turkish President Abdullah Gül attends an association soccer called football match in Armenia after an invitation by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisyan, making him the first Turkish head of state to visit the country.
7th » The Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac called US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
10th » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
12th » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink (Southern California) known as Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
13th » Delhi, India, is hit by a 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings known as series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
13th » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
14th » All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
15th » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code or Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
20th » A dump truck full of explosives Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing called detonates in front of the Marriott International or Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.
23rd » Kauhajoki school shooting: Matti Saari kills 10 people before committing suicide.
27th » China National Space Administration named CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on 'Shenzhou 7'.
28th » SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
29th » Following the bankruptcy or bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
Famous Deaths for September 2008
1st » Thomas J. Bata, Czech-Canadian businessman (b. 1914)
1st » Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
1st » Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1937)
1st » Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician and academic (b. 1961)
2nd » Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor (b. 1916)
3rd » Donald Blakeslee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1917)
6th » Sören Nordin, Swedish Harness racing called harness racer and trainer (b. 1917)
6th » Anita Page, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
7th » Kune Biezeveld, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1948)
7th » Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian rugby player and actor (b. 1931)
7th » Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
7th » Peter Glossop, English actor and singer (b. 1928)
7th » Don Haskins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
7th » Gregory Mcdonald, American author (b. 1937)
7th » Nagi Noda, Japanese director and producer (b. 1973)