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Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Increased racial tensions in Peterborough, England following the September 11 attacks result in the murder of Ross Parker by a gang of ten Muslims in a racially motivated attack.
America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
The Defense of Marriage Act passes the United States Congress (a vote of 342-67 in the House of Representatives and a vote of 85-14 in the Senate). The law prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriage, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea and is associated with Operation Moolah.
The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by far-right legionnaires of the fascist paramilitary organization Iron Guard.
The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
Salvador Lutteroth ran the first ever EMLL (now CMLL) show in Mexico, marking the birth of Lucha libre.
A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
Mahdist War: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the newly independent Chilean government.
French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.
American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
The Congress of Arras causes Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.
Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed in Battle of Matthew's Day.
Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin into exile.
Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
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