Luna 2 was the sixth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon, E-1 No.7. It was originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and was nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media. It was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon's surface and the first human-made object to communicate with another celestial body.The Luna 8K72 s/n I1-7B rocket launched the spacecraft on September 12, 1959. It took a direct route to the Moon.

The September 11 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attacks, were a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks carried out in 2001 against targets in the United States by 19 militants affiliated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda, and were the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in US history. The attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., caused widespread death and destruction and sparked a massive counter-terrorism effort in the United States. In New York, 2,750 people were killed, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania (where one of the hijacked planes crashed after passengers attempted to retake the plane); all 19 terrorists were killed.

Luna 16 was a Soviet Luna programme unmanned space mission. It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return to Earth with a sample of lunar soil. Mare Fecunditatis returned the 101 gramme (3.56 ounce) sample. It was the Soviet Union's first successful lunar sample return mission and the third lunar sample return mission overall.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? is an animated American comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS and created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. The series debuted on September 13, 1969, as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule, and ran for two seasons until October 31, 1970.

Tupac Amaru Shakur, also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper who was born Lesane Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971 and died on September 13, 1996. He is regarded as one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Much of Shakur's music has been praised for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is regarded as a symbol of anti-inequality activism.

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. He was born on September 12, 1913.Owens specialised in sprints and long jumps and was dubbed "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history" during his lifetime. At the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he set three world records and tied another in less than an hour—a feat that has never been matched and has been dubbed "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport."

Pink Floyd's ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here, was released on September 12, 1975 by Harvest Records and Columbia Records. Wish You Were Here was recorded over several sessions at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) in London during 1975, based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe.

The Archie Show (also known as The Archies) is a CBS musical animated sitcom series produced by Filmation. The Archie Show, based on the Archie Comics created by Bob Montana in 1941, aired on CBS Saturday mornings from September 1968 to 1969.

Shane Keith Warne, who lived from September 13, 1969 to March 4, 2022, was an Australian international cricketer who played from 1991 to 2007. Warne represented Victoria, Hampshire, and Australia as a right-arm leg spin bowler and right-handed batsman. He is widely regarded as one of the sport's greatest bowlers; he appeared in 145 Tests, taking 708 wickets, and set the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, which he held until 2007.

"We Choose to Go to the Moon," officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a speech given by US President John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1962, to further inform the public about his plan to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy delivered the speech to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas, which was largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen.