| 2004 | The Beslan school massacre results in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children. |
| 1997 | Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office. |
| 1997 | A Vietnamese Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64. |
| 1994 | Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. |
| 1991 | In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people. |
| 1977 | Sadaharu 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. |
| 1976 | Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface. |
| 1971 | Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 1967 | The last telecast of the television game show What's My Line? airs on CBS after a 17 year run. |
| 1967 | Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam. |
| 1967 | Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right |
| 1966 | The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs. |
| 1958 | In Greece, police start shaving the hair of youths called "teddy boys" to the skin. |
| 1954 | The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years. |
| 1954 | The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy |
| 1951 | The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network. |
| 1943 | World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war. |
| 1943 | The Allies sign the armistice with Italy in Cassibile. |
| 1939 | World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany. |
| 1935 | Sir 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 |
| 1914 | Papacy of Giacomo della Chiesa began. He becomes pope Benedict XV. |
| 1902 | Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career. |
| 1895 | The 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). |
| 1878 | Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames. |
| 1874 | The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez". |
| 1861 | American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance. |
| 1855 | Indian 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. |
| 1838 | Dressed 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. |
| 1826 | The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe. |
| 1798 | Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize. |
| 1783 | American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris |
| 1777 | Cooch's Bridge |
| 1651 | Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester |
| 1650 | Third English Civil War: Battle of Dunbar (1650) |
| 1260 | The 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. |
| 1189 | Richard I of England is crowned in Westminster. |
