2004The Beslan school massacre results in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children.
1997Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
1997A Vietnamese Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1994Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
1991In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
1977Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career homerun in the Japanese Central League, passing Hank Aaron to become the world leader for most HRs in a professional baseball league.
1976Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
1971Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom.
1967The last telecast of the television game show What's My Line? airs on CBS after a 17 year run.
1967Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
1967Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right
1966The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
1958In Greece, police start shaving the hair of youths called "teddy boys" to the skin.
1954The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
1954The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy
1951The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1943World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
1943The Allies sign the armistice with Italy in Cassibile.
1939World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.
1935Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
1914Papacy of Giacomo della Chiesa began. He becomes pope Benedict XV.
1902Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
1895The first professional American football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0).
1878Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1874The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1861American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1855Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1838Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
1826The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.
1798Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1783American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris
1777Cooch's Bridge
1651Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester
1650Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650)
1260The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1189Richard I of England is crowned in Westminster.

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