The 9/11 attacks completed 20 years, and "never forget" remains strong. Although the attacks had fewer views than a recently deceased actor whose best-known work, The Wire, came out a year later, and a tennis player who won a Grand Slam final to make us all feel old, as the two finalists (the other is #5) were born after al-Qaeda hit the United States.
She lives in and represents Great Britain, was born in Canada, has Romanian and Chinese parents, and had her moment of glory in the United States: two months after a strong Wimbledon showing, this tennis player won the US Open at just 18! And it is even more impressive considering Raducanu is the first Grand Slam champion who came from the qualifiers, and did not lose a single set in the whole tournament.
The deadliest terrorist attack of all time (which claimed 2,977 lives, excluding the 19 terrorists, and injured 25,000 others) had its 20th anniversary on (well, you can guess the date). The death toll would have been considerably higher if #10 had not been taken back from the terrorists.
Anyway, the 20th anniversary saw numerous commemorations and special programs around the entire globe, to remember the event that led to America's longest ever war.
This film was released on September 3 and continues to makes a lot of money, with positive reviews (which don't always go together), showing that Marvel Studios going on a martial arts route was a good decision (certainly better executed than the Marvel Television attempt Iron Fist).
Harding, one fifth of the British girl groupGirls Aloud, died on September 5 aged 39 of breast cancer. Girls Aloud had 22 top 10 UK hits, as well as six top 10 albums.
As documented in a 2006 movie, #3 almost ended up worse, as al-Qaeda had hijacked a fourth plane, only the passengers fought to take back control, leading to everyone dying as it crashed in a Pennsylvania field (better there than on Pennsylvania Avenue, or Capitol Hill).
The Swedish DJ quoted at #9, who was the subject of a Google Doodle on what would have been his 32nd birthday (September 8) had he not committed suicide in April 2018.
265 on the four planes (including the 19 terrorists), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon. A very sad day.
A Nickelodeon show that for a decade stimulated its young viewers to figure out clues regarding an animated blue-spotted dog named Blue, at the behest of a host - #6 for six years, Donovan Patton (pictured) on the rest.
The main character of #4, played by #14. The Master of Kung Fu debuted in 1973 and was originally Fu Manchu's son, but the movie makes him instead descend from The Mandarin.
French president Emmanuel Macron eulogized this actor as a "national hero" as Belmondo passed away at 88, following a long career only stopped by a stroke, that included working with Jean-Luc Godard and other big names of the French New Wave, and always denying Hollywood's requests to make an American film.
All Elite Wrestling, a relatively new wrestling league, held its first post-lockdown pay-per-view show on September 5. This show was the AEW debut of f.k.a. Ruby Riott; the WWE owns the rights to the "Riott" name, so she has to now go by "Ruby Soho."
The Matrix was credited to The Wachowski Brothers. By 2016, the siblings had both gone through gender transition to be Sisters instead. And aside from V for Vendetta and Sense8, their post-Matrix career was not very stellar. No wonder one of them, as both started working separatedly, felt like returning to the digital world (#8).
YouTube - Because it's better to have something that we can explain why it got in, rather than an article that somehow gets 80k views every day no matter what.
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