Diana, Princess of Wales is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion.

Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.

Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher Johnson McCandless at his camp {{convert|20|mi|km}} west of the town of Healy, Alaska.

The name ''Saint Petersburg'' is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed ''Leningrad'' in 1924.

The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.

Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.

The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.

Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

Swaziland becomes independent.

In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.

War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's failed Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that is ended following the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.

The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.

Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek and Armenian minority are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.

Canada's first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.

A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.

Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.

Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.

World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces.

The Monterrey Institute of Technology, one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America, is founded in Monterrey, Mexico.

King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.

World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.

World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.

Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.

Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.

Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).

Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.

Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.

American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.

Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.

The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.

The siege of Candia ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans.

Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen the Catholic Imperial army defeats Protestant armies of Sweden and Germany.

Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the ''Mayflower'' to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

The ''Victoria'', the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.

Battle of the Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast.