On this day in History - Sep. 17

• 0064 - Julia Flavia was born. Daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
• 0309 - Papa Eusébio dies.
• 0879 - King Charles III of France was born (d. 0929).
• 1111 - Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
• 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
• 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen dies (b. 1098). German mystic and poet.

• 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo was born (d. 1219). Japanese shogun.
• 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland was born (d. 1305).
• 1322 - Robert III of Flanders dies (b. 1249).
• 1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.
• 1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria dies.
• 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War
• 1550 - Pope Paul V was born (d. 1621).
• 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland dies. English soldier.
• 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés dies (b. 1519). First Spanish Governor of Florida.
• 1575 - Heinrich Bullinger dies (b. 1504). Swiss religious reformer.
• 1577 - The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
• 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo was born (d. 1645). Spanish writer.
• 1621 - Robert Bellarmine dies (b. 1542). Italian saint.
• 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
• 1630 - Thomas Lake dies (b. 1567). English statesman.
• 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma was born (d. 1694).
• 1631 - Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
• 1639 - Hans Herr was born (d. 1725). Swiss-born Mennonite bishop.
• 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna was born (d. 1704). Regent of Russian.
• 1665 - King Philip IV of Spain, III of Portugal dies (b. 1605).
• 1677 - Stephen Hales was born (d. Jan 1781). English botanist, physiologist, who pioneered the quantitative experimental approach in plant and animal physiology. He was a clergyman whose work in plant physiology, Vegetable Staticks (1787), included early demonstrations of the importance of air and light in plant growth, and of the role of transpiration in causing upward sap flow.
• 1679 - John of Austria the Younger dies (b. 1629). Spanish general.
• 1683 - The Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
• 1687 - Durastante Natalucci was born (d. 1772). Italian historian.
• 1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy was born (d. 1714). First queen of Philip V of Spain.
• 1710 - Manuel Bernardes dies. Portuguese preace and writer.
• 1727 - Glückel of Hameln dies (b. 1647). German businesswoman and diarist.
• 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born (d. 1794). Prussian army officer.
• 1739 - John Rutledge was born (d. 1800). 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet was born (d. 1794). French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist.
• 1762 - Francesco Geminiani dies (b. 1687). Italian violinist and composer.
• 1764 - John Goodricke was born (d. 20 Apr 1786). English astronomer who was the first to notice that some variable stars were periodic.
• 1768 - Morre Manuel da Maia, reconstrutor de Lisboa após o terramoto de 1755.
• 1771 - Johann August Apel was born (d. 1816). German jurist and writer.
• 1771 - Tobias Smollett dies (b. 1721). Scottish novelist.
• 1775 - François-Marius Granet was born (d. 21 Nov 1849). French painter.
• 1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
• 1777 - Francisco Manuel Trigoso was born (d. 11 Dez 1838). Portuguese politician.
• 1778 - The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
• 1787 - The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
• 1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr dies (b. 1766). Austrian composer.
• 1806 - Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne was born (d. 1875). French neurologist, born in Boulogne, who studied at Douai and Paris. He was first to describe several nervous and muscular disorders and, in developing medical treatment for them, created electrodiagnosis and electrotherapy.
• 1808 - Benjamin Bourne dies (b. 1755). American politician.
• 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
• 1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
• 1819 - Thomas Hendricks was born (d. 1885). Vice President of the United States.
• 1820 - Émile Augier was born (d. 1889). French dramatist.
• 1823 - Abraham-Louis Bréguet died (b. 10 Jan 1747). Swiss-French horologist, whose artistic flair, scientific rigour and technical innovation made him the leading French of his time.
• 1826 - Bernhard Riemann was born (d. 20 Jul 1866). German mathematician whose work widely influenced geometry and analysis.
• 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu dies (b. 12 Apr 1748). French botanist who developed the principles that served as the foundation of a natural system of plant classification.
• 1839 - Jerónimo Gutiérrez de Mendoza dies. Colombian politician.
• 1846 - Seth Carlo Chandler Jr. was born (d. 31 Dec 1913). American astronomer best known for his discovery (1884-85) of the Chandler Wobble, a complex movement in the Earth's axis of rotation (now refered to as polar motion) that causes latitude to vary with a period of 14 months.
• 1850 - Guerra Junqueiro was born in Freixo de Espada à Cinta (d. 1923). Portuguese journalist, politician, writer and poet. A revolutionary, he wrote violent satiric poems attacking conservatism, romanticism, and the Church. Typical are A morte de Dom Jõao (1874) and A velhice do Padre Eterno (1885).He later turned to writing simple, touching lyrics of rural life, as in Os simples (1892). His work also included A Musa em Férias (1879), Finis Patriae (1890), Os Simples (1892), Pátria (1896), Oração ao Pão (1903), Oração à Luz (1904), Poesias Dispersas (1920) and with Guilhermo de Azevedo: Viagem à Roda da Parvónia (Webmaster note: some sources tell the writer was born on 15 Sep. 1850).
• 1851 - John Kidd died (born 10 Sep 1775) English chemist and physician who obtained naphthalene (1819), which name he coined.
• 1854 - David Dunbar Buick was born (d. 6 Mar 1929. Scottish-born American inventor and pioneer automobile manufacturer. He invented the more powerful valve-in-head engine and the windshield.
• 1857 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was born (d. 19 Sep 1935). Russian rocket scientist and inventor.
• 1858 - Robert William Vonnoh was born (d. 28 Dec 1933). American Impressionist painter.
• 1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
• 1859 - Gabriel García Moreno becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1862 - American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the Battle of Antietam.
• 1863 - Alfred de Vigny dies (b. 1797). French author.
• 1868 - James Alexander Calder was born (d. 1956). Canadian politician.
• 1869 - Christian Lous Lange was born (d. 11 Dec 1938). Norwegian pacifist who shared (with Karl Branting [23 Nov 1860 - 24 Feb 1925] the 1921 Nobel Prize for Peace.
• 1873 - Alexander Berry dies (b. 1781). Scottish adventurer and settler in Australia.
• 1877 - William Fox Talbot died (b. 11 Feb 1800). English mathematician, physicist, chemist who invented the negative-positive photographic process.
• 1879 - Periyar E. V. Ramasamy was born (d. 1973). Indian Social Reformer.
• 1879 - Rube Foster was born (d. 1930). American baseball player, manager and executive.
• 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc dies (b. 1814). French architect.
• 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter was born (d. 1955). English soldier.
• 1883 - William Carlos Williams was born (d. 1963). American poet, playwright, essayist and writer who won a Pulitzer prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems.
• 1883 - Pedro Carbo becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes was born (d. 1920). American composer.
• 1890 - Gabriel Heatter was born (d. 1972). American radio commentator.
• 1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• 1894 - José Manuel Estrada dies. Argentinian historian.
• 1894 - Deng Shichang dies (b. 1849). Chinese admiral.
• 1897 - Earl Webb was born (d. 1965). American baseball player.
• 1897 - Morre Manuel José Gonçalves Couto (n. 1819). Missionário pedâneo, autor da Missão Abreviada.
• 1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury dies (b. 1842). American industrialist.
• 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
• 1900 - John Willard Marriott was born (d. 1985). American hotelier.
• 1900 - Hughie Critz was born (d. 1980). American baseball player.
• 1901 - José Régio (José Maria dos Reis Pereira) was born in Vila do Conde (d. 22 Dec 1969). Portuguese writer.
• 1901 - Francis Chichester was born (d. 1972). English adventurer.
• 1903 - Karel Miljon was born (d. 1984). Dutch boxer.
• 1903 - Frank O'Connor was born (d. 1966). Irish-American short-story writer.
• 1905 - Merrill W. Chase was born (d. 5 Jan 2004). American immunologist who helped redefine the fundamental nature of the immune system.
• 1906 - Edgar Wayburn was born. American environmentalist.
• 1907 - Warren Burger was born (d. 1995). 15th Chief Justice of the United States
• 1907 - Ignaz Brüll dies (b. 1846). Austrian pianist.
• 1908 - Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge crashes a Wright Brothers airplane and becomes the first airplane fatality.
• 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge (b. 1882) as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
• 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska was born. Polish actress, comiedienne.
• 1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
• 1916 - Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr was born (d. 7 Jan 2004). American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar.
• 1918 - Chaim Herzog was born (d. 1997). President of Israel.
• 1920 - The American Professional Football Association—a precursor of the NFL—was formed in Canton, Ohio.
• 1921 - Virgilio Barco Vargas was born. President of Colombia (1986-90)
• 1922 - Agostinho Neto was born (d. 1979). Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola.
• 1923 - Hank Williams was born (d. 1953). American musician.
• 1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
• 1926 - Bill Black was born (d. 1965). American musician.
• 1926 - Curtis Harrington was born (d. 2007). American film director.
• 1927 - George Blanda was born. American football player.
• 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
• 1928 - Roddy McDowall was born (d. 1998). English actor.
• 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss was born. English race car driver.
• 1929 - Pat Crowley was born. American actress.
• 1930 - Thomas Stafford was born. American astronaut.
• 1930 - Edgar Mitchell was born. American astronaut.
• 1930 - Jim Rohn was born. American business philosopher.
• 1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman was born. Indian violinist.
• 1931 - Anne Bancroft was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1933 - Chuck Grassley was born. American politician.
• 1933 - Dorothy Loudon was born (d. 2003). American actress.
• 1933 - Claude Provost was born (d. 1984). National Hockey League player.
• 1933 - Joseph De Piro dies (b. 1877). Maltese missionary.
• 1934 - Maureen Connolly was born (d. 1969). American tennis player .
• 1935 - Ken Kesey was born (d. 2001). American author.
• 1936 - Ettie Annie Rout dies (b. 1877). New Zealand activist.
• 1937 - Orlando Cepeda was born. Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.
• 1938 - Bobby Wine was born. American Major League Baseball player
• 1938 - Bruno Jasieński dies (b. 1901). Polish poet.
• 1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defence War of 1939.
• 1939 - World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
• 1939 - Taisto Mäki of Finland establishes a new world record on 10.000m. 29.52.6. First time under 30 min. In Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland.
• 1939 - Shelby Flint was born. American singer.
• 1939 - David Souter was born. U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
• 1940 - Jan Eliasson was born. Swedish diploma.
• 1940 - Sotiris Moustakas was born (d. 2007).
• 1941 - A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued.
• 1941 - Bob Matsui was born (d. 2005). U.S. Congressman from California.
• 1942 - Des Lynam was born. English television presenter.
• 1942 - Robert Graysmith was born. Zodiac killer researcher.
• 1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
• 1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
• 1944 - British troops parachute into Arnhem, as a part of Operation Market Garden.
• 1944 - Reinhold Messner was boern. Austrian mountain climber.
• 1945 - David Emerson was born. Canadian politician.
• 1945 - Phil Jackson was born. NBA coach.
• 1945 - Bruce Spence was born. New Zealand actor.
• 1946 - Billy Bonds was born. English footballer.
• 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
• 1947 - João Carlos Taveira was born. Brazilian poet.
• 1947 - Tessa Jowell was born. British politician.
• 1948 - Jeff MacNelly was born (d. 2000). American political cartoonist.
• 1948 - John Ritter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1948 - Lehi (also know as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
• 1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
• 1949 - Cassandra Peterson was born. American actress
• 1950 - Chris Heister was born. Swedish politician 8 lives.
• 1950 - Fee Waybill was born. American musician (The Tubes).
• 1950 - Narendra Modi was born. Indian politician.
• 1951 - Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Defense of United States.
• 1951 - Cassandra Peterson was born. American actress.
• 1951 - Jimmy Yancey dies (b. 1898). American pianist.
• 1952 - Pedro Luis Ferrer was born. Cuban musician.
• 1952 - Odir Cunha was born. Brazilian journalist and writer.
• 1953 - Luís Filipe Marques Amado was born. Portuguese politician (Minister of Defense)
• 1953 - Altaf Hussain was born. Pakistani politician and founder of MQM.
• 1954 - Sandra Pêra was born. Brazilian singer, actress and film director.
• 1954 - Rocky Marciano retained possession of the world heavyweight boxing title. He knocked out Ezzard Charles in the 8th round of their championship bout.
• 1954 - Joël-François Durand was born. French composer.
• 1955 - Charles Martinet was born. American actor.
• 1955 - Koralia Karanti was born. Greek actress.
• 1955 - Marina Lima was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia.
• 1956 - Brian Andreas was born. American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher.
• 1956 - Rita Rudner was born. American comedienne
• 1956 - Thad Bosley was born. American major league baseball player
• 1957 - Omar Q. Beckins was born (d.1989). American medical researcher.
• 1957 - Malásia becomes member of United Nations
• 1957 - The North East Humanists group was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
• 1959 - O pintor catalão Modest Cuixart, recebe o Premio Internacional de pintura, da V Bienal de São Paulo (uma pintura de Cuixart : Nemesius Hals )
• 1959 - Charles Lawson was born. Northern Irish actor.
• 1960 - John Franco was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 - Damon Hill was born. English race car driver.
• 1960 - Avião em que transportava Dag Hammarskjöld (um DC-6B), cai no Congo.
• 1961 - 131 padres diocesanos e religiosos foram expulsos de Cuba
• 1961 - Ty Tabor was born. American guitarist and singer (King's X)
• 1961 - The Minnesota Vikings play their first NFL game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37-13, with Fran Tarkenton throwing 4 touchdowns and running for 1 touchdown.
• 1962 - Baz Luhrmann was born. Welsh-born film director and producer.
• 1962 - Dustin Nguyen was born. Vietnamese American actor.
• 1963 - Masahiro Chono was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1963 - Michael Adler was born. American businessman
• 1963 - Amy Roloff was born. American reality star
• 1963 - Rami Saari was born. Israeli poet and translator.
• 1963 - Steven Dye was born. English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project).
• 1963 - Wendy Northcutt was born. Author of the Darwin Awards.
• 1965 - Bryan Singer was born. American director
• 1965 - Gore Verbinski was born. American director.
• 1965 - Guy Picciotto was born. American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi).
• 1965 - Yuji Naka was born. Japanese video game programmer
• 1966 - Doug E. Fresh was born. American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
• 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich dies (b. 1930). German tenor.
• 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher." From the Song, Light My Fire when asked not to.
• 1967 - Ordenação Episcopal de D.António Ribeiro (Patriarca de Lisboa 1971-1978)
• 1967 - Malik Yoba was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Anastacia was born. American singer.
• 1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece was born.
• 1969 - Ken Doherty was born. Irish snooker player.
• 1969 - Keith Flint was born. Member of the British hard dance/rave band The Prodigy.
• 1969 - Matthew Settle was born. American actor.
• 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syrio-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
• 1971 - Jens Voigt was born. German cyclist.
• 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková was born. Slovak model.
• 1971 - Mike Catt was born. English rugby player.
• 1971 - Ian Whyte (actor) was born. Welsh actor and basketball player.
• 1972 - The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.
• 1972 - Akim Tamiroff dies (b. 1899). Georgian actor.
• 1972 - Bobby Lee was born. American comedian
• 1973 - Mexico: Es asesinado en Monterrey, Nuevo León, el prominente industrial regiomontano, don Eugenio Garza Sada.
• 1973 - Ada Choi was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1973 - Demis Nikolaidis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter dies (b. 1909). American bandleader.
• 1974 - Bangladesh,Granada e Guiné-Bissau são admitidos como Estados-Membro da ONU
• 1974 - Rasheed Wallace was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Mirah was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Tormod Granheim was born. Norwegian adventurer.
• 1975 - Jimmie Johnson was born. American race car driver.
• 1975 - Austin St. John was born. American actor.
• 1975 - Constantine Maroulis was born. American Idol Finalist.
• 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
• 1976 - Daniella Rush was born. Czech pornographic actress.
• 1977 - Simone Perrotta was born. Italian football player.
• 1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
• 1978 - In the 30th Emmy Awards winners included All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson.
• 1978 - Shawn Horcoff was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Akin Ayodele was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Chuck Comeau was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan).
• 1979 - Steffen Algreen was born. Danish footballer.
• 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle dies assassinated in Paraguay (b. 1925). President of Nicaragua
• 1980 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
• 1980 - Danny Haren was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Bakari Koné was born. Ivory Coast footballer.
• 1981 - Casey Janssen was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Francis Manioru was born. Solomon Islander sprinter
• 1981 - Jonathan Radtke was born. American musician (Kill Hannah)
• 1982 - Garth Murray was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1982 - Hope Larson was born. American illustrator and cartoonist.
• 1982 - Manos Loïzos dies (b. 1937). Greek composer.
• 1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America. The following July, she also became the first Miss America to resign in the wake of her Penthouse magazine scandal.
• 1983 - Jennifer Peña was born. American singer.
• 1984 - Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1984 - Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
• 1984 - Eugenia Volodina was born. Russian supermodel.
• 1984 - Richard Basehart dies (b. 1914). American actor.
• 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin was born. Russian hockey player.
• 1985 - Brendan Clarke was born. Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick's Athletic.
• 1985 - Jon Walker was born. American musician (Panic! at the Disco).
• 1985 - Mason Raymond was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1985 - Tomáš Berdych was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1986 - Dimitrios Regas was born. Greek sprinter.
• 1986 - Landry Mulemo was born. Belgian footballer.
• 1987 - Paul Huntington was born. English footballer.
• 1987 - Harry Locke dies (b. 1913). British character actor.
• 1988 - Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
• 1989 - In the 41st Emmy Awards winners included LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen.
• 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
• 1991 - Jordan McCoy was born. American entertainer.
• 1991 - Zino Francescatti dies (b. 1902). French violinist.
• 1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
• 1993 - Christian Nyby dies (b. 1913). American film and television director.
• 1994 - Heather Whitestone of Alabama became the first deaf Miss America.
• 1994 - Taylor Ware was born. American yodeler.
• 1994 - Karl Popper dies (b. 1902). Austrian-boorn British philosopher.
• 1996 - Spiro Agnew dies (b. 1918). Vice President of the United States.
• 1997 - Red Skelton dies (b. 1913) American actor and comedian.
• 1999 - Senado paraguaio retira a imunidade do ex-presidente Raúl Cubas.
• 2001 - The Late Show with David Letterman is the first TV talk show to return to the airwaves six days after terrorists attack the United States in New York City and Washington D.C.
• 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
• 2001 - Louie Dog dies (b. 1989). Dalmatian for the band Sublime.
• 2002 - North Korea confesses abductions of Japanese. During talks in Pyongyang with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, aimed at normalizing relations, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, desperate to get economic aid from Japan, confesses that North Korean secret services have abducted 11 Japanese in past years.
• 2002 - Furacão Isidore chega à Jamaica
• 2003 - Erich Hallhuber dies (b.1951). German actor.
• 2003 - Sheb Wooley dies (b. 1921). American actor and singer.
• 2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
• 2004 - Major League Baseball: Barry Bonds reaches an elite number of 700 homeruns became the third baseball player to do it, joining Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.
• 2005 - Alfred Reed dies (b. 1921). American composer.
• 2006 - The WB Television Network will go off-the-air after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launches the following day.
• 2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford ford (b. 1924). American sociali
• 2007 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
• 2009 - Noordin Mohammad Top dies (b. 1968). Malaysian Islamist terrorist.
• Feast of Hildegard of Bingen.
  
• Feast of Saint Lambert.
• The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
• Angola's National Heroes' Day.
• Netherlands - Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.
• United States - Constitution Day, Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day.
• United States - National Apple Dumpling Day.