Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
2015  Don Edwards, American politician (b. 1915)
 2015  Jacob Pressman, American rabbi (b. 1919)
 2015  Joe Wark, Scottish footballer (b. 1947)
 2015  Max Keeping, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1942)
 2017  Hansje Bunschoten, Dutch swimmer and television presenter (b. 1958)
 2017  Robert D. Hales, American religious leader (b. 1932)
 2017  Arthur Janov, American psychologist and author (b. 1924)
 2017  Edmond Maire, French labour union leader and activist (b. 1931)
 2017  Larissa Volpert, Russian-Estonian philologist and chess player (b. 1926)
 2017  Edward B. Giller, American Major General (b. 1918)
 2017  Andy Hopkins, American football player (b. 1941)
 2017  Philippe Rahmy, Swiss poet and writer (b. 1965)
 2017  Stephen Paddock, American accountant and mass murderer (b. 1953)
 2018  Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, actor and diplomat (b. 1924)
 2018  Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (b. 1937)
 2018  Carlos Ezquerra, Spanish comic artist (b. 1947)
2018  Jerry González, American bandleader and trumpeter (b. 1949)
 2018  Do Muoi, Vietnamese politician (b. 1917)
 2018  Graciano Rocchigiani, German boxer (b. 1963)
 2018  Franco Sar, Italian decathlete (b. 1933)
 2018  Antoine Sfeir, Lebanese journalist and professor (b. 1948)
 2019  Joseph Bismuth, Tunisian businessman (b. 1926)
 2019  Cain Hope Felder, American theologian and writer (b. 1943)
 2019  Karel Gott, Czech singer (b. 1939)
 2019  Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
 2019  C. K. Menon, Indian businessman and politician (b. 1949)
 2019  Eric Pleskow, Austrian-born American film producer (b. 1924)
 2019  Peter Sissons, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1942)
 2019  Arto Tchakmaktchian, Egyptian-born Armenian-Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1933)
Observances 
 National Day (China, Cyprus, Tuvalu, and Palau)
 Independence Day (Nigeria)
 Unification Day (Cameroon)
 Teacher's Day (Uzbekistan)
 Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
 International Day of Older Persons

October 01
Up to 1900 
 44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
 31 BC – Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium – Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
 1192 - The Third Crusade ends, after a peace agreement Sultan Saladin and Richard I of England.
 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
 1667 - Street lighting is introduced in Paris.
 1752 – The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
 1789 – United States Department of the Treasury was founded.
 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughtered three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
1806 - A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457 people.
 1807 – British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to stop Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 70% of the city was destroyed and 2000 citizens were killed.
 1811 - The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, named after King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.
 1859 - A solar super storm affects the electrical telegraph service.
 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces under General William T. Sherman enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
 1867 – Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
 1885 – In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
 1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1901  2000 
 1901 – Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
 1935 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hit the Florida Keys killing 423.
 1939 – Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) ruled by Nazi leader Forster is annexed to Nazi Germany.
 1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
 1945 – World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
 1946 - A caretaker government is formed in India, with Jawaharlal Nehru taking Prime Ministerial powers.
 1957 - South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem makes the first-ever state visit to Australia.
1958 - United States Air Force C-130 A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia, when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a mission, killing all crew members.
 1960 - First election to Parliament of Central Tibetan Administration.
 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
 1967 – The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declared its independence.
 1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
 1970 - NASA cancels two planned Moon missions, Apollo 15 and Apollo 19.
 1973 - France pulls its last troops out of Madagascar.
 1984 - Typhoon Ike kills over 1,400 people.
 1987 – In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
 1990 - Transnistria is declared a Soviet republic on its own right. Mikhail Gorbachev declares the move illegal.
1991 – The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
 1992 - An earthquake in Nicaragua kills 116 people.
 1995 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio. The building was designed by I. M. Pei.
 1995 - Frank Bruno becomes Boxing Heavyweight Champion, defeating Oliver McCall in London.
 1998 – In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
 1998 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner carrying Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva. All 229 people on board are killed.
 1998 – A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
From 2001 
 2001 – Cartoon Network begins its adult-orientated block, Adult Swim.
 2004 - Resolution 1559: The United Nations Security Council calls for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon.
 2013 - The new eastern part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
 2016 - President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov dies aged 78, after several days of speculation over his ill health.
 2018 - National Museum of Brazil fire: The National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro is heavily damaged by fire. Many cultural treasures are lost in the blaze.
 2019 - Sinking of MV Conception: 34 people are killed when the boat "MV Conception" goes on fire and sinks near Santa Cruz, California.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1661 - Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (d. 1733)
 1675 - William Somerville, English poet (d. 1742)
 1753 - Marie Josephine of Savoy, Italian-born Queen Consort of France (d. 1810)
 1763 - Caroline Schelling, German writer and translator (d. 1809)
 1778 – Louis Bonaparte, King of the Netherlands (d. 1846)
 1798 - Thomas Holliday Higgins, Governor of Maryland (d. 1865)
 1805 - Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (d. 1851)
 1810 - Lysander Button, American engineer (d. 1898)
 1810 - William Seymour Tyler, American historian and educator (d. 1897)
 1811 - J. C. Jacobsen, Danish industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Carlsberg brewery (d. 1887)
 1812 - William Fox, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
 1814 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist and philologist (d. 1896)
 1820 - Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
 1830 – William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911)
 1838 – Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1838 - Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian/Bengali writer and religious figure (d. 1914)
 1839 - Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
 1840 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (d. 1922)
 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
 1850 - Alfred Pringsheim, German mathematician and art collector (d. 1941)
 1850 - Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919)
 1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
 1866 - Hiram Johnson, Governor of California (d. 1945)
 1877 – Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
 1878 - Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920)
 1879 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
 1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1963)
 1883 - Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist (d. 1957)
 1884 – Frank Laubach, American Christian missionary (d. 1970)
 1886 - Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (d. 1962)
1894 - Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
 1898 - Pietro Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 1949)
 1898 - Alfons Gorbach, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1972)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Adolph Rupp, American College basketball coach (d. 1977)
 1904 - Set Svanholm, Swedish tenor (d. 1964)
 1912 - Ingeborg Rapoport, German paediatrician (d. 2017)
 1913 – Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009)
 1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981)
 1915 – Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
 1917 – Cleveland Amory, writer (d. 1998)
 1918 - Allen Drury, American writer (d. 1998)
 1919 - Marge Champion, American actress, dancer and choreographer
 1922 - Arthur Ashkin, American physicist
 1923 – René Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
 1924 – Daniel arap Moi, former President of Kenya
 1925 - Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
 1925 - Russ Conway, British pianist, composer and singer (d. 2000)
 1926 – Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
 1926 – Ibrahim Nasir, President of the Maldives (d. 2008)
 1927 - Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (d. 2015)
 1927 - Francis Matthews, English actor (d. 2014)
1928 - Horace Silver, American jazz pianist (d. 2014)
 1928 - Mel Stuart, American director and producer (d. 2012)
 1929 – Hal Ashby, American movie director (d. 1988)
 1929 - Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor and director (d. 2012)
 1930 - Andrey Petrov, Russian composer (d. 2006)
 1931 - Clifford Jordan, American jazz musician (d. 1993)
 1933 - Mathieu Kérékou, former President of Benin (d. 2015)
 1934 – Chuck McCann, American actor and comedian (d. 2018)
 1936 – Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer (d. 2016)
 1937 - Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
 1938 - Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (d. 2013)
 1941 - David Bale, South African activist
 1942 - Andrew Kohut, American political scientist (d. 2015)
 1943 - Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
 1944 – Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
 1946 – Billy Preston, American musician (d. 2006)
 1947 - Louis Michel, Belgian educator and politician
 1948 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player
1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
 1949 - Moira Stuart, British broadcast journalist
 1950 - Michael Rother, German guitarist and keyboardist
 1950 - Yuen Wah, Chinese actor, martial artist and stuntman
1951  1975 
 1951 – Mark Harmon, American actor
 1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
 1953 - Keith Allen, British actor
 1953 – John Zorn, American musician
 1954 - Andrej Babis, Czech businessman and politician, Prime minister of the Czech Republic
 1956 - Doria Ragland, mother of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
 1956 - Mario Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
 1957 - Steve Porcaro, American musician (Toto)
 1958 - Lynne Kosky, Australian politician (d. 2014)
 1958 - Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver
 1959 - Guy Laliberté, Canadian poker player and entrepreneur, founder of the Cirque du Soleil
 1960 - Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician
 1961 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
 1961 - Claude Puel, French footballer and manager
 1961 – Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
 1962 - Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1962 - Keir Starmer, English lawyer and politician
 1963 - Prachya Pinkaew, Thai movie director, producer and screenwriter
1963 - Stanislav Cherchesov, Russian footballer and manager
 1964 – Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor
 1965 – Lennox Lewis, Canadian-British boxer
 1966 – Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
 1967 – Andreas Moeller, German footballer
 1969 – Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, singer
 1969 - Stephane Matteau, Canadian ice hockey player
 1971 - Kjetil André Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier
 1971 – Tommy Maddox, American football player
 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, ice hockey player
 1973 – Mark Shield, Australian football referee
 1974 - Sami Salo, Finnish ice hockey player
From 1976 
 1976 - Momodu Mutairu, Nigerian footballer
 1977 - Frédéric Kanouté, Malian footballer
 1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer
 1980 - Danny Shittu, Nigerian footballer
 1981 - Chris Tremlett, English cricketer
 1982 – Joey Barton, English footballer
 1983 - José Alfredo Castillo, Bolivian footballer
 1983 - Aimee Osbourne, American model and actress
 1986 - Gelson Fernandes, Swiss footballer
 1986 - Rafik Halliche, Algerian footballer
 1986 – Kyle Hines, American basketball player
 1987 - Spencer Smith, American drummer (Panic! at the Disco)
 1987 - Jevan Snead, American football player (d. 2019)
 1988 - Javi Martínez, Spanish footballer
 1988 - Dimitrij Ovtcharov, German table tennis player
 1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
 1989 - Marcus Morris, American basketball player
 1989 - Markieff Morris, American basketball player
 1990 - Marcus Ericsson, Swedish racing driver
 1992 - Alberto Masi, Italian footballer
 1993 - Montana Cox, Australian model
1996 - Sungha Jung, South Korean musician
 1997 - Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
Up to 1900 
 490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero (b. around 530 BC)
 421 – Constantius III, Roman Emperor (b. late 300s)
 459 - Simeon Stylites, Byzantine saint (b. 390)
 595 - Patriarch John IV of Constantinople
 1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
 1274 – Prince Munetaka, 6th Kamakura shogun in Japan (b. 1242)
 1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer (b. between 1325 and 1335)
 1540 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1501)
 1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1602)
 1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1615)
 1721 - Kwon Sang-ha, politician and Neo Confucian scholar of Korea (b. 1641)
 1764 – Revd Nathaniel Bliss, British astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
 1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (b. 1703)
 1813 - Jean-Victor Moreau, French general (b. 1763)
 1820 – Jiaqing Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
 1832 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian scientific editor, astronomer (b. 1754)
 1834 – Thomas Telford, British civil engineer (b. 1757)
1845 - Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentine statesman (b. 1780)
 1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805)
 1872 – Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (b. 1783)
 1877 - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
 1884 - Henry B. Anthony, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1815)
 1895 - Charles Anderson, 27th Governor of Ohio (b. 1814)
 1898 – Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
1901  2000 
 1910 – Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
 1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer (b. 1855)
 1921 – Henry Austin Dobson, poet (b. 1840)
 1927 - Umegatani Totaro II, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1878)
 1934 – Alcide Nunez, jazz musician (b. 1884)
 1934 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)
 1937 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
 1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
 1964 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese President (b. 1894)
 1964 – Alvin York, most decorated American soldier of World War I (b. 1887)
 1969 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese political leader (b. 1890)
 1971 - Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
 1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
 1973 – Carl Dudley, American movie director (b. 1910)
 1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (b. 1934)
 1981 - Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (b. 1901)
1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920) 
 1991 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican politician (b. 1911)
 1992 – Barbara McClintock, American geneticist (b. 1902)
 1994 - Roy Castle, English actor, singer and dancer (b. 1932)
 1997 - Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera singer (b. 1902)
 1997 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
 1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
 1998 – Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
 2000 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
 2000 – Curt Siodmak, science fiction writer (b. 1907)
From 2001 
 2001 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
 2001 – Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
 2008 - Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator, director, producer and voice actor (b. 1916)
 2009 - Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1949)
 2010 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (b. 1923)
 2013 - Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer (b. 1919)
 2013 - Ronald Coase, British economist (b. 1910)
 2013 - Valérie Benguigui, French actress (b. 1965)
 2013 - David Jacobs, English radio and television host (b. 1926)
 2013 - Paul Scoon, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1935)
 2014 - Steven Sotloff, American journalist (b. 1983)
 2014 - Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
 2014 - Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast (b. 1921)
 2014 - J. LaMoine Jenson, American religious leader (b. 1935)
 2014 - Peter Carter, British diplomat (b. 1956)
 2014 - Antonis Vardis, Greek composer and singer (b. 1948)
 2015 - Charles Gyamfi, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1929)
2015 - Aleksander Mandziara, Polish footballer and coach (b. 1940)
 2015 - Simo Salminen, Finnish comic actor (b. 1932)
 2015 - Brianna Lea Pruett, American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and moviemaker (b. 1983)
 2016 - Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
 2017 - Viktor Cherepkov, Russian politician (b. 1942)
 2017 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian composer (b. 1921)
 2017 - Xiang Shouzhi, Chinese general (b. 1917)
 2018 - Conway Savage, Australian rock singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1960)
 2018 - Claire Wineland, American entrepreneur and health activist (b. 1997)
 2019 - Ryszard Czerniawski, Polish lawyer and economist (b. 1952)
 2019 - Carlo Fonseka, Sri Lankan physician (b. 1933)
 2019 - Joan Antoni Solans Huguet, Spanish urban planner (b. 1941)
 2019 - Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1934)
Observances 
 National Day (Vietnam)
 Democracy Day (Tibet)
 Independence Day (Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh)

September 02
Up to 1900 
 476 – Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
 626 - Li Shimin, known after his death as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty in China.
 1260 – The forces of King Manfred of Sicily, in league with the Ghibellines, defeat the Guelphs at Monte Aperto.
 1618 - A rock fall in the Val Bregaglia in the north of present-day Italy kills 2,430 people.
 1666 - The most destructive damage of the Great Fire of London occurs.
 1774 - Members of James Cook's expedition become the first Europeans to sight New Caledonia (presently part of France) in the Pacific Ocean, and name it after Scotland, for which Caledonia is another name.
 1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
1800 - The French garrison of Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta protectorate.
 1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
 1857 - Ernst Rietschl's Goethe-Schiller Monument in Weimar is unveiled.
 1862 - American Civil War: Maryland campaign - General Robert E. Lee takes the army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
 1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
 1882 - Thomas Edison flips the switch on the first-ever commercial electrical power plant, which lights up a square mile of Lower Manhattan.
 1886 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
1890 - The now-Greek city of Thessaloniki is heavily damaged by fire, making 20,000 people homeless.
 1894 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1901  2000 
 1912 - Albanian rebels are successful in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands.
 1923 – In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
 1940 – World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result.
 1941 - World War II: A German submarine carries out the first attack on a United States ship, the USS Greer.
 1944 - World War II: Finland ends its state of war with the Soviet Union.
 1944 – World War II: The British 11th Armored Division liberate the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
 1945 – World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
 1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
 1950 – Beetle Bailey comic strip started.
1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
 1957 – Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
 1957 – Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
 1962 - The 4th Asian Games in Jakarta end.
 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland killing all on board.
 1964 – Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, is officially opened.
 1967 – The last new episode of the television sitcom Gilligan's Island airs on CBS-TV.
 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins – The United States Marines launch a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
 1970 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
 1970 - The 6th Asian Games in Bangkok end.
1971 – A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska killing all 111 people on board.
 1971 – The Lawrence Welk Show airs its last show.
 1972 – Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.
 1972 – The Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker, returns to television with a new format on CBS. Over three decades later, it continues to air and give away prizes galore.
 1984 - Brian Mulroney is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
 1985 - Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
 1989 - In Leipzig, then-East Germany, the first of the so-called Monday Demonstrations takes place, calling for opposition groups to be allowed.
 1995 – The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1996 – War on Drugs: Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
 1997 – In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird rolls off the assembly line.
 1997 – A U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo plane and a German TU-154 collide in mid-air over southwest Africa killing 33.
 1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
From 2001 
 2006 – Australian naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) is killed by a stingray off the Queensland coast.
 2007 - Three terrorists are arrested in Germany on suspicion of being part of Al-Qaeda and allegedly planning attacks on Frankfurt International Airport and US military installations.
 2009 – An airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills 142 people.
 2010 – 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread damage and power outages, particularly in Christchurch. No deaths are reported.
 2014 - NATO leaders meet in South Wales to discuss conflicts in Ukraine and Iraq.
 2016 - Canonization of Mother Teresa by Pope Francis.
 2017 - The Queensferry Crossing, linking Fife and Lothian in Scotland, is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II, exactly 53 years to the day after the opening of the nearby Forth Road Bridge.
 2018 - Japan is hit by one of its strongest-ever typhoons.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1241 – King Alexander III of Scotland (died 1286)
 1383 - Antipope Felix V (died 1451)
 1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (died 1483)
 1557 – Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1631)
 1563 – Wanli, Emperor of China (died 1620)
 1596 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (died 1687)
 1681 - Carl Heinrich Biber, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1749)
 1755 - Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (died 1810)
 1756 - Christen Pram, Norwegian-Danish writer (died 1821)
 1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer and diplomat (died 1848)
 1798 - Raynold Kaufgetz, Swiss soldier, economist and politician (died 1869)
 1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (died 1891)
 1805 - William E. Dodge, American businessman and politician (died 1883)
 1809 – Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (died 1849)
 1809 - Federico Luigi Menabrea, Italian scientist, general and politician (died 1896)
1809 - Manuel Montt, 6th President of Chile (died 1880)
 1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (died 1896)
 1825 - Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian academic and politician (died 1917)
 1826 - Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and inventor (died 1905)
 1832 – Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (died 1915)
 1838 - William Gibson Sloan, Scottish missionary (died 1914)
 1840 - William, Prince of Orange (died 1879)
 1846 - Daniel Burnham, American architect (died 1912)
 1848 - Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (died 1928)
 1851 – John Dillon, Irish nationalist (died 1927)
 1852 - Eilif Peterssen, Norwegian painter (died 1928)
 1877 – Karlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician (died 1942)
 1882 - Leonhard Frank, German writer (died 1961)
 1885 - Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (died 1971)
 1886 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of the Salvation Army (died 1967)
 1890 - La Argentina, Argentine-Spanish dancer and choreographer (died 1936)
 1890 - Naime Wifstrand, Swedish actress (died 1968)
1891 – Fritz Todt, Nazi official (died 1942)
 1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (died 1974)
 1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor, director (died 1948)
 1896 – Aspasia Manos, Queen consort of Greece (died 1972)
1901  1950 
 1901 - William Lyons, English businessman (died 1985)
 1901 - Ahmet Kutsi Tecer, Turkish poet and politician (died 1967)
 1904 - Sabin Carr, American athlete (died 1983)
 1905 - Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor (died 2003)
 1905 – Mary Renault, English novelist (died 1983)
 1905 - Meade Lux Lewis, American pianist and composer (died 1964)
 1906 – Max Delbrück, German biologist (died 1981)
 1908 – Richard Wright, American writer (died 1960)
 1908 – Edward Dmytryk, movie director (died 1999)
 1913 – Stanford Moore, American chemist (died 1982)
 1913 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005)
 1913 - Shmuel Wosner, Israeli rabbi (died 2015)
 1915 - Rudolf Schock, German tenor (died 1986)
 1917 - Henry Ford II, American businessman (died 1987)
 1918 - Bill Talbert, American tennis player (died 1999)
 1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (died 2009)
 1918 - Gerald Wilson, American trumpeter and composer (died 2014)
1919 - Xavier Atencio, American animator, lyricist and engineer (died 2017)
 1919 - Emile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2012)
 1920 – Teddy Johnson, British singer
 1921 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (died 2010)
 1922 - Per Olof Sundman, Swedish politician (died 1992)
 1924 - Joan Aiken, English author (died 2004)
 1925 – Forrest Carter, writer (died 1979)
 1926 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2015)
 1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist (died 2011)
 1928 – Dick York, American actor (died 1992)
 1929 - Robert V. Keeley, American diplomat (died 2015)
 1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
 1932 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (died 2003)
 1934 – Clive Granger, Welsh economist (died 2009)
 1934 - Eduard Khil, Russian singer and actor (died 2012)
 1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
 1939 - Erwin Teufel, German politician
 1941 - Earl Ross, Canadian racing driver (died 2014)
 1941 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
 1942 - Raymond Floyd, American golfer
1942 - Jerry Jarrett, American wrestler and promoter
 1942 - Merald "Bubba" Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer
 1943 - Hédi Annabi, Tunisian diplomat (died 2010)
 1944 - Tony Atkinson, British economist (died 2017)
 1944 - Jennifer Salt, American actress, producer and screenwriter
 1946 - Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flautist and composer
 1948 – Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
 1949 - Tom Watson, American golfer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer (The Pretenders)
 1951 - Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician
 1952 - Stephen Easley, American politician (died 2013)
 1952 - Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor, director and producer
 1953 – Fatih Terim, Turkish football manager
 1955 – Brian Schweitzer, American politician, former Governor of Montana
 1955 - David Broza, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1957 – Khandi Alexander, American actress
 1957 – Patricia Tallman, American actress
 1958 - George Hurley, American drummer
 1958 - Drew Pinsky, American radio and television host
 1958 - Satoshi Tezuka, Japanese footballer
 1959 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
 1959 - Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper
 1960 – Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian
 1962 - Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician, 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner
 1963 - John Vanbiesbrouck, American ice hockey player, coach and manager
 1963 - Sami Yaffa, Finnish singer-songwriter and bass player
1964 - Anthony Weiner, American politician
 1964 - Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and singer (died 2015)
 1966 - Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer-songwriter (died 1991)
 1966 - Jeff Tremaine, American director, producer and screenwriter
 1968 – Mike Piazza, American baseball player
 1968 - John DiMaggio, American voice actor
 1969 - Sasha, Welsh DJ and music producer
 1969 - Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kick-boxer (died 2013)
 1969 - Giorgi Margvelashvili, former President of Georgia
 1970 – Daisy Dee, American singer and actress
 1970 - Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer
 1970 - Ione Skye, British actress
 1970 - Richard Speight Jr., American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
 1974 - Carmit Bachar, American singer, dancer and actress (Pussycat Dolls)
 1974 - Nona Gaye, American singer, model and actress
 1975 - Mark Ronson, English music producer
From 1976 
 1977 – Lucie Silvas, English singer
 1977 - Sun-woo Kim, South Korean baseball player
 1978 - Wes Bentley, American actor
 1979 - Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
 1979 – Kerstin Garefrekes, German footballer
 1980 - Zachary Abel, American actor
 1980 - Max Greenfield, American actor
 1981 – Beyoncé Knowles, American singer
 1982 – Mark Lewis-Francis, English athlete
 1982 - Sarah Solemani, English actress
 1983 - Jennifer Metcalfe, English actress
 1984 - Hamish McIntosh, Australian footballer
 1984 - Camila Bordonaba, Argentine singer and actress
 1985 - Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
 1986 – Aaron Hunt, German footballer
 1988 - JJ Hickson, American basketball player
 1990 - Stefanía Fernández, Venezuelan model
 1990 - Jonny Lomax, English rugby player
 1990 - James Bay, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1991 - Carter Jenkins, American actor

Deaths
Up to 1950 
 422 - Pope Boniface I
 799 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (born 745)
 1037 - Bermudo III of Leon (born 1010)
 1063 - Tughril, Turkish ruler (born 990)
 1199 - Joan of England, Queen of Sicily (born 1165)
 1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (born 1532)
 1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (born 1725)
 1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (born 1714)
 1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer (born 1778)
 1821 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean politician (born 1785)
 1852 – William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (born 1796)
 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (born 1825)
 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (born 1843)
 1914 - William Gibson Sloan, Scottish missionary (born 1838)
 1914 - Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (born 1873)
 1916 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer (born 1832)
 1930 - Vladimir Arsenyev, Russian adventurer and writer (born 1872)
1940 - George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (born 1869)
 1944 - Erich Fellgiebel, German general (born 1886)
 1949 - Liberato Pinto, Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1880)
1951  2010 
 1963 – Robert Schuman, French politician (born 1886)
 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, German physician (born 1875)
 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (born 1899)
 1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister (born 1884)
 1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (born 1894)
 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (born 1911)
 1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (born 1911)
 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (born 1908)
 1989 – Georges Simenon, Belgian-French writer (born 1903)
 1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (born 1903)
 1990 - Irene Dunne, American actress and singer (born 1898)
 1991 - Charlie Barnet, American saxophonist, composer and producer (born 1950)
 1991 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (born 1926)
 1991 – Dottie West, American country music singer (born 1932)
 1993 – Hervé Villechaize, actor (born 1943)
 1995 – William Kunstler, lawyer (born 1919)
 1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (born 1931)
2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-Belgian violinist (born 1921)
 2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (born 1921)
 2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (born 1971)
 2004 – Moe Norman, golfer (born 1929)
 2004 – James O. Page, American founder of modern emergency medical response (born 1936)
 2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV presenter (born 1962).
 2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (born 1942).
 2006 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (born 1918)
From 2011 
 2011 - Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (born 1930)
 2014 - Habib Wali Mohammad, Pakistani singer (born 1921)
 2014 - Martynas Andriukaitis, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1981)
 2014 - Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor (born 1924)
 2014 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentine singer and musician (born 1959)
 2014 - Franca Falcucci, Italian politician (born 1926)
 2014 - Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Polish composer (born 1925)
 2014 - Gerrit Kouwenaar, Dutch poet (born 1923)
 2014 - Roy Leonard, American radio personality (born 1931)
 2014 - Hopeton Lewis, Jamaican singer (born 1947)
 2014 - Orunamamu, American-Canadian storyteller (born 1921)
 2014 - Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian (born 1928)
 2014 - Joan Rivers, American comedienne, actress and entertainer (born 1933)
 2015 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (born 1931)
 2015 - Graham Brazier, New Zealand musician and songwriter (born 1952)
 2015 - Wilfred de Souza, Indian politician (born 1927)
2015 - Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese shortest-man-ever record holder (born 1939)
 2015 - Rico Rodriguez, Cuban trombonist (born 1934)
 2015 - Sylvie Joly, French actress and comedienne (born 1934)
 2015 - Jean Darling, American actress (born 1922)
 2017 - Sultan Ahmed, Indian politician (born 1953)
 2017 - David Consunji, Filipino engineer and industrialist (born 1921)
 2017 - Mountaga Diallo, Senegalese diplomat (born 1942)
 2017 - Rogéria, Brazilian actress and drag queen (born 1943)
 2017 - Gastone Moschin, Italian actor (born 1929)
 2017 - Les McDonald, British-Canadian runner (born 1933)
 2018 - Sheldon S. Cohen, American politician (born 1927)
 2018 - Bill Daily, American actor (born 1927)
 2018 - Christopher Lawford, American actor, writer and political activist (born 1955)
 2018 - Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1936)
 2018 - Ralph Wolfe Cowan, American portrait artist (born 1931)
 2018 - Don Gardner, American singer-songwriter and drummer (born 1931)
2018 - István Bethlen, Hungarian aristocrat and economist (born 1946)
 2019 - Dai Tielang, Singaporean-Chinese animator (born 1930)
 2019 - Patrick Dehornoy, French mathematician (born 1952)
 2019 - Peter Ellis, New Zealand child sex offender (born 1958)
 2019 - Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (born 1922)
Observances 
 Immigrant's Day (Argentina)

September 04
Up to 1900 
 917  Liu Yan declares himself Emperor, establishing the southern Han state in China.
 1590  Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the Siege of Paris.
 1666  Great Fire of London ended: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
 1698  In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each.
 1725  Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczynska marry in Fontainbleau.
 1774  First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 1781  Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
1793  In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating (starting) the Reign of Terror.
 1798  Conscription (military service) is made mandatory (meaning young men had to do it) in France.
 1800  Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
 1812  War of 1812: Siege of Fort Wayne begins with Chief Winamac's forces attacking two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
 1836  Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
 1839  The United Kingdom declares the First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
 1840  First performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala in Milan.
 1862  American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia into Maryland.
1877  Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
 1882  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is founded in London.
 1882  The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
 1887  Fire at the Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186 people.
1901  2000 
 1901  The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago.
 1905  Russo-Japanese War: Treaty of Portsmouth signed – In New Hampshire a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
 1906  Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
 1914  World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins – Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
 1927  The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
 1932  French Upper Volta is broken up between French Sudan, Ivory Coast and Niger.
 1936  Federico Borrell García, a Republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War, is photographed in the moment of his death by Robert Capa.
 1937  Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
1939  World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war. It later enters on the side of the Allies.
 1941  World War II : Siege of Leningrad begins.
 1941  World War II: Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
 1942  World War II: The Battle of Milne Bay in the Pacific Ocean ends in a Japanese defeat against the Allies.
 1943  World War II: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
 1944  World War II: The USSR declares war on Bulgaria.
 1944  Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg form the Benelux.
 1945  Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
 1948  Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France
 1949  A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
1957  Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs a revolt in the city of Cienfuegos.
 1958  The English language translation of the novel Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is published.
 1960  Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the 1st President of Senegal.
 1960  Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
 1961  The first conference of countries of the Non Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade.
 1969  My Lai Massacre: Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
 1970  Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
 1972  Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
 1973  Palestinian terrorists attack Saudi Arabia's Embassy in Paris.
1975  In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
 1977  Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
 1977  In Cologne, Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped by members of the Red Army Faction
 1978  Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
 1980  The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
 1983  The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
 1983  Peter Jennings becomes lead anchor for ABC World News Tonight.
 1983  Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News.
 1984  Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to ban capital punishment.
1984  The Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-41-D) lands after its maiden voyage.
 1986  Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
 1988  With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
 1990  Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan army soldiers murder 158 civilians.
 1991  The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, the Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention, 1989, comes into force.
 1995  France tests an atomic bomb on Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia.
 1996  Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, where 27 people are killed, and three billion dollars worth of damage are caused.
 1997  At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria.
 2000  Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
From 2001 
 2001  Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
 2001  Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario.
 2002  A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
 2002  The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.
 2002  The Beltway sniper attacks begin with the murder of Paul LaRuffa.
 2004  Future Hurricane Ivan becomes a Hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
 2005  A Mandala Airlines plane crashes in a residential area in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 on board and 39 on the ground.
 2005  In Solden, Tyrol, Austria, an aerial lift accident kills nine German tourists, as a transport helicopter hits a cable car, which then plunges to the ground.
 2008  Quentin Bryce becomes Governor-General of Australia.
 2012  A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits Costa Rica.
2012  A firecracker factory explodes near Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India, killing 40 people.
 2012  An accidental explosion at a Turkish army ammunition store in Afyon, Western Turkey, kills 25 soldiers.
 2012  The bodies of Saad al-Hilli, two members of his family, and a local cyclist are found near Annecy, in the alpine region of France, having all been shot, while al-Hilli's two daughters survived. The case remains unsolved, as no killer or motive has been determined.
 2014  Ukraine and Russia agree to a ceasefire during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Up to 1800 
 699  Abu Hanifa, Iraqi scholar (d. 767)
 1187  King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
 1201  Alix, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1221)
 1319  Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
 1533  Jacopo Zaparella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
 1540  Magnus, Duke of Holstein (d. 1583)
 1567  Date Masamuno, Japanese daimyo (d. 1636)
 1568  Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
 1638  King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
 1651  William Dampier, English explorer (d. 1715)
 1666  Gottfried Arnold, German historian and theologian (d. 1714)
 1667  Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian Jesuit and mathematician (d. 1733)
 1695  Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
 1722  Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
 1733  Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet, translator and publisher (d. 1813)
 1735  Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
 1750  Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
 1751  John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, British politician (d. 1834)