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A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing six people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding two others.
CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.
Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
The Julie N., a tanker ship, spills thousands of gallons of oil after crashing into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
The last use of capital punishment in Spain sees the executions of five members of militant organisations, sparking worldwide protests against the Spanish government and the withdrawal of numerous ambassadors.
The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
The first Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.
The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
The National Liberation Front (Greece) is established and Georgios Siantos is appointed acting leader.
World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, The Open Championship, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.
The Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
American Revolutionary War: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States, for one day after the Second Continental Congress evacuates Philadelphia to avoid invading British forces.
The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year-long Siege of Candia.
The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.
After the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
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