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1857 The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1893 Parliament of the World's Religions opened in Chicago, where Swami Vivekananda delivers his speech on fanaticism, tolerance and the truth inherent in all religions.
1897 After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1903 The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1916 The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
1919 U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1922 The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1931 Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Lucky Luciano's hitmen.
1932 Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
1939 World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war
1940 George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1943 World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
1943 World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
1944 World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
1944 World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.
1954 Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1965 Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
1968 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1968 The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) was found.
1970 The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1971 The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system has its opening day of passenger service.
1973 A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1974 Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1976 A group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal. After stating political demands, they revealed the location and provided instructions for disarming the bomb. The disarming operation was not executed properly, killing one NYPD bomb squad specialist.
1978 Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.
1980 Voters approve a new Constitution of Chile, later amended after the departure of president Pinochet.
1982 The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
1985 Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit
1988 The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1989 Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
1997 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
1997 After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
1997 14 Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea
1998 Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.
2001 Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed.
2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
2012 A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
2012 The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.
2013 400 km long Human chain called Catalan Way is organized by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana for the independence of Catalonia
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